Beyoncé gave an interview in 2018 about her wishes for her son, Sir Carter.
"I want him to know that he can be strong and brave but that he can also be sensitive and kind. I want my son to have a high emotional IQ where he is free to be caring, truthful, and honest. It’s everything a woman wants in a man, and yet we don’t teach it to our boys.
I hope to teach my son not to fall victim to what the internet says he should be or how he should love. I want to create better representations for him so he is allowed to reach his full potential as a man, and to teach him that the real magic he possesses in the world is the power to affirm his own existence."
Watched something that talked about how being understood is more intimate than being loved. How love relies on performance, a fantasy and its duration depends on how long you perform. Whereas being understood, is the intentional act of knowing you & the reasons for your actions.
Beyoncé’s presence in these spaces as Southern, Americana-coded disrupts the right’s illusion of cultural ownership, and the left’s fantasy of cultural abandonment. She’s reimagining the center and that makes everybody uncomfortable.