womanness

I think about these moments of totality and about my Blackness and my womanness, and so much of that is because of the blueprints that I’ve been able to experience through the preservation of these women’s stories.

For me, the pressure from society to have your life look a certain way is exacerbated by your womanness, by your brownness.

Shaving my legs is my own crash course in the oral history of my Black womanness and the beauty I have ignored.

Shaving my legs is my own crash course in the oral history of my Black womanness and the beauty I have ignored.

“My womanness has led me into those action-packed two minutes of tense terror that you feel when you’re facing some kind of dreaded situation. That’s the way that I think horror has to work.”