And then even when it is lent, it’s almost always very quickly snatched back, too often violently.

I look around at my sister’s, mom, staff, and black women in our community at large even folks that I’ve disagreed with and can’t say enough about how much of a miracle you all are. 🖤 5/

simultaneously place ceilings on possibilities.

Not to mention how the spectrum of sexual orientation, gender identity, and expression are often gate kept with zero degree of latitude, respect for personal agency, boundaries, and personal sovereignty lent. 4/

because again we might’ve only grazed the surface.

Also I’m not just stopping at aggressions. It’s truly pervasive how deeply mysoginoir is engrained and gravitational in the way our systems churn to disenfranchise black women, keep them under thumb, place all of the expectations and 3/

To be clear, I don’t even think we scratched the surface in 2020 with what was seen as a moment of racial reckoning. I have many reflections about 2020 that have reoriented me to understanding how much more work, understanding, education, and compassion we have to operate with… 2/