Tag: black culture
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Episode 30: Putting Yourself Back Together: How to Create Mental and Emotional Space to Divest
This is it. 🕳 It’s time to divest.
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Episode 21: The Black Fathers Subreddit Is Empty. Even Virtually, Black Fathers Are Absent.
The Black fathers who cared enough to create this space don’t care enough to maintain it. Creating a community of any kind requires active participation.
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Episode 20: Black Women Unmasking Black Men’s Victim Complex
Dear Black men: I will acknowledge that you’ve been victimized. I will acknowledge that victimization still happens to Black men and occurs within and outside of our communities. I will not, however, acknowledge that other people continue to victimize you at every turn. Within our community many problems are not the fault of white people.…
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Episode 19: Rejecting Stereotypes: Why You Should Resist the “Strong Black Woman” Stereotype
As Black women, we know all too well that no community will tear us down like our own. No one else goes out of their way to antagonize us about our attractiveness the way Black men do. Some Black women do this to each other as well. And what strength does that display? The “strong…
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Episode 17: Divesting From the Race, Gender, and Class Expectations of Black Culture
Addressing misogynoir and women divesting from toxic masculinity in Black communities.
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Episode 16: Embracing Imperfection: Confronting Your Own Decisions & the Mistakes You’ve Made
Show yourself more compassion after relationships with losers and toxic men. If you don’t you won’t move forward.
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Episode 15: Play Stupid Games, Win Stupid Prizes.
Is this all there really is? It’s crucial for Black women to consider how our culture’s expectations shape our choices and love life.
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Episode 14: Black Men Bombard Us with Eurocentric Beauty Standards
Black women, other men see us. Want us. And love us. Today we’re talking about how Black women can challenge Black men’s cultural narratives through self-acceptance.
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Episode 13: Why It Feels Dangerous to Protect Your Well-Being
Someone has sold you a dream you can’t afford. But divesting from toxic men will recoup what you’re owed. Welcome to the new self-care: strategies to protect yourself from the toxicity rampant with the Black community.
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Episode 12: Afraid to Question the Culture, Being in Your Skin
Girls like us are never allowed to say anything negative, especially about Black men or Black culture, lest we become “uglier” by virtue of our “negativity.”
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Episode 7: Trapped in a Desperate Struggle, Black Men Only Know How To Be Loyal to Themselves
No woman should be afraid to walk away from mistreatment. But many black women don’t believe we have a choice. Removing ourselves from our communities can feel like tearing our families and culture apart.
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Episode 6: We Can’t Trust Black Men Because They Never Learned How to Be Good Men
What kind of man is a man if he was never taught how to be one? They let us down in unthinkable ways.
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Episode 5: Black Men Create the Worst Stereotypes for Black Women to Endure
Loving a Black man as a Black woman can feel like cosigning your own oppression.
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Episode 4: Black Women Are Often Viewed as Unworthy by Black Men, Unless We’re Black “And.”
Black men are masters at deciding what you’re worth. Yet their standards for themselves are in the toilet.
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Episode 3: Do I Believe What I Know or What I See?
– Black men talk a lot of shit about black women. But no one knows them like their own.
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Episode 1: Being a Black Woman Is a Sentence with No Commute.
Can a girl catch a break?
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