You've gotta get comfortable with being seen as a bad person because people will really be mad at you for not letting them run you ragged "how dare you not allow me to do this thing which benefits me, at great expense to you?! I thought you were a good person???"
If you are a woman who doesn’t have self-esteem issues or body image issues, society wants you to be quiet about it while desiring to mimic you in the same breathe.
We cannot be out here platforming ‘fake it till you make it’ confidence from people who never have it but try to silence people who should be the example & role models of mental health.
I get told I have “masculine energy” all the time. It’s true, I do. I also have autonomy and do not tolerate manipulative tactics. My femininity is there, only when you are not a threat to my autonomy. You cannot control me. I do not bother about winning battles. I win the war.
Osun teaches us a lot about shame and how it poisons our hearts. She teaches us that self-respect also involves seeing our own humanity. She teaches us that a lot of shame stems from denying our own humanness—entertaining the fear of being too much and not enough.
Correct. And the obvious implication is that lack of production in Nigeria is a deliberate state policy fronted by a political elite that wants the public to remain poor indefinitely.
There is nothing Nigerians cannot produce. Our poverty is artificial and deliberate.
There is a woman on TT telling Black women that they should essentially ask for help as often as white women do, pay for help wherever possible and seek relationships that make your life easier.
Correct but be prepared for others - including Black women themselves, to...