Unapologetic Black Woman

Black Liberation though the lens of Black Feminist Thought and the internet

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"Dear Internet, Signed Black Feminist Theory" I know i have existed long before you, but I have a favor... or two To ask I need you to spread me like dandelion seeds Across your numerous feeds I need- A place to gather my thoughts My probing questions My hopes and my fears because here- lies Black women Wholly and authentically Here they can be seen Intersectionally. All Black and equally parts woman A simultaneous experience- Existence. signs Kimberle Crenshaw For a single categorical axis can't context this That is what she foresaw A shame it would be to erase her name But not at all surprising For all the climbing Black women have done That glass ceiling keeps them from rising Left out of Feminism and Anti-racism alike Structures must be completely broken to understand their plight For then all Black people will remain men And all women are white sign bell hooks These names don't make it to the history books so look- Are you up for the task? To strip away the mask- that Black women have been ascribed or maybe the veil they wear long before they're wives? No more crowbars for a spine. I need- A place to exist. A place of joy and peace. A place to share my thoughts, hopes, fears, and beliefs. I need a place to be.

Written by: Hailey Frazier

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This blog was created to help further the Black liberation movement in the currentness of social media. This displays what Black liberation means to me through Black feminism, which is first knowledge of self- Creating our own definitions of who we are, as knowledge of our ancestors and icons, and awareness of Black women and girls who are victims of violence. Secondly, Black love whether romantic or plantonic, through kinship or community. Another highlighted feature would be Black imagination/Creativity, where Afrofuturism, Black art, and seeing Black people in fiction settings as a way of escapism.

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A photo of Jocelyn M. Frazier- A black woman, a mother, a sister, a daughter, a friend, and a victim of domestic violence.

My older sister pictured above is one of my first introductions to requitted Black Love. It was not hard to recognize then but I think about this fact more now than ever since her passing. Before I knew who I was or what I was capable of, my sister always saw it in me. She affirrmed me. She reassured me. Most of all she loved me. Freely and without reservation as if she herself had birthed me. I am forever grateful to know a love such as this one.

In 2019 she was murdered by the hands of the father of her child. I was angry. Devasted. Hurt. I never thought I would know unconditional love like this again. However, through the process of healing in such grief, I realized that the love never went anywhere. It was all still inside of me, ready for me to once again acknowledge and embrace its existence. She was not gone because she lived on in me. Her love manifests itself in every poem I write, in every picture I see of her, and every memory that I have with her. Black love knows no bounds, not even death.

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To fully understand anxiety and Black women, we must understand how Black women are viewed in this country. Research and history tell us that three basic images exist-the Strong Black Woman, the Angry Black Woman, and the Jezebel/Video Vixen. These images affect how other people see Black women and how they see themselves. They also play a role in the development and maintenance of anxiety...-Our work with these women has found that many of them are anxious. The anger is an outward expression of their discomfort with negative affect associated with anxiety. 

To Be Female, Anxious and Black- Angela Neal-Barnett, PhD

To Be Female, Anxious and Black

Anxiety disorders are the most common mental health disorder in the United States. Data show that for Black women, anxiety is more chronic a

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The Me I Choose to be written by Natasha Anastasia Tarpley

Black children are our future, we must nuture them as such!

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A reminder that as a Black woman, you are more than just your hair and European beauty standards NEVER define you.

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Tiffany "New York" Pollard

A outspoken, pioneer of Black women in reality TV stardom, who always remind us to be who we are regardless of who's watching.

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Dear Black Children

A message about love, worth, and power that we want Black children and young people to hear.

“A Love Letter to Black Children” written by Nadia Khasawneh & María de los Ángeles Corral, moved me because it felt like everything I wanted, but most importantly NEEDED to hear as a child. “You can cry or scream, be angry or sad. You’re allowed to feel anything and be fully human. You don’t have to always be strong or absorb the hurt and the pain being put on you,” this particular quote brought me to tears because it touched my inner child where I didn’t even know I was still hurting. As a child, and even now, I struggle with being the “strong” friend, daughter, sibling, etc which made me bottle up my pain while also absorbing everyone elses and I didn’t understand how much that had affected me until now that I am continuously unpacking these things in adulthood. I think every black child deserves to hear this, feel reassured, feel safe, feel heard, and seen and this letter did a great job of doing that for the children who have no one else in their life that will tell them.

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A Black Love somewhere in Nashville, Tennessee

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🎾 858 wins.

🏆 73 singles titles.

💪🏿 23 at the majors.

🥇 4 Olympic gold medals.

1⃣ ONE Serena Williams.

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A call to recognize and celebrate our Icons!

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For women, the need and desire to nurture each other is not pathological but redemptive, and it is within that knowledge that our real power I rediscovered. It is this real connection which is so feared by a patriarchal world. Only within a patriarchal structure is maternity the only social power open to women. -Audre Lorde The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House

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Whenever I hear this I think of freedom. I think of living right now as I am. I feel good!!

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While many people (such as myself) had not heard of such as things as intersectional identities until introduced to Kimberle Crenshaw, the Combahee River Collective, a group of radical Black feminists considered this notion much decades prior and touched on the unique experience and existence of Black women and expanded outside of exising Feminist and Black nationalists movements. This group consisted of Barbara Smith, Beverly Smith, Demita Frazier, Cheryl Clarke, Akasha Hull, Margo Okazawa-Rey, Chirlane McCray, and Audre Lorde.

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OMCA's “Mothership: Voyage Into Afrofuturism” is the Story of Survivors in the Future - Oakland Voices

Our correspondent Brandy Collins checks out OMCA's exhibit on Afrofuturism.

“There Are Black People in the Future,” by artist Alisha B. Wormley. A part of Oakland Museum of CA’s Mothership: Voyage Into Afrofuturism exhibit. Photo by Brandy Collins.

This powerful yet simplee message brings awareness for our need to Afrofuturism not only as a genre but as a movement!

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Black women have been bent, used as ladders and stepping stones, and are constantly in battle with the Glass ceiling but our souls will NOT be broken! This joy is permanent.

House music making it's way back to us>

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Look at these beautiful mermaids by PJ Harper. Their ig is @pig.malion

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Seeing Black women as fictional and mythical creatures should be the norm and imagination shouldn't be reserved for a few.

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Stick • Simone Leigh

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Black women in the Victorian age? Yes they exist.