Kiese Laymon wrote the first one
in honor for International Women's Day 2017. March 8. 4:21pm
1. Mother Weight of Work
["My mother told me last week that she was going to work until her body broke because the only thing she's ever been good at was work. She's sick today, and she's at work. That means that she's giving that job time that she should be giving herself to heal. Black women in my family and my state and my nation have given black men and white folks time that could and maybe should have been given to themselves. We gotta stop making more work for black women, then devaluing them for doing the work of loving us better than we deserve. No one should be expected to live and die doing their work, our work, and the work of the nation. It's too much. Violence, whether emotional or material, has consequence. Backs and bodies and hearts break when consistently asymmetrically carrying the weight of other backs, bodies and hearts."]
2. Travel - Leave She Alone
FB meme
"Men, was the last time you were scared to leave your house at night, afraid that someone would rape you?"
3. Constant Disruptions
4. Cost Price Journey
5. Cosmic Unidentified Entity
6. AfroFuturism Belle Epoque
7. Alpha Femmes
B.Willis
" So, Georgina is every black woman that has lived up to this stereotype while simultaneously being cut down by it. She is every black woman who has fought or is fighting despite being constantly pushed down. She is every black woman who becomes wearier after each push and desperately needs someone to help pull her up. She is every black woman trying to save black men from their own demise only to be met with suspicion and distrust. She is every black woman who has to sustain whiteness for survival while struggling to protect and maintain her black womanhood."
8. Wistful Regrets
9. Inhabitations and Visitations
10. Architect Impossible Physics
11. Unemployed/No Hustle
12. Date With a Son, or Three
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