Damn we all really about to have our come up if it hasn’t already started. The blessings are here and still coming. Open up. Work towards what you love and the love will come back to you tenfold.
It's taken me 45 trips around the sun, but for the first time in my life I know what it feels like to have a "band-aid" in my own skin tone. You can barely even spot it in the first image. For real I'm holding back tears.
Beyonce HOMECOMING reminded me that we have to create home for ourselves. Even in the whitest of spaces. Create home.
Even if it's just the head nod when you are the only two Black people in the room of white folk. Create home where you are. We are the culture.
I repeat. When sis is released:
She 👏🏾is 👏🏾not 👏🏾your 👏🏾prop
Do not coopt her narrative.
Do not minimize her agency with your paternalism.
Pay her appropriately for the speaking engagements yall are already salivating over.
Do 👏🏾not 👏🏾pimp 👏🏾her 👏🏾trauma.