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#BlackGirlFeminism: Being Intentional About Raising Black Feminist Daughters
Mother’s Day is a triggering day for many women, but there is also joy and community and love.
This is especially true for black women who not only have to navigate interpersonal relationships with our children, but our relationship to the state. It is a terrifying task trying to raise aware, radical, loving, confident black children in a white supremacist society that tells them every day their lives do not matter—a white supremacist capitalist society that tells our children the only value their lives hold is what can be used in the service of sustaining institutionally discriminatory systems intended to destroy them.
Anika Simpson, Associate Professor, Philosophy and Women’s & Gender Studies at Morgan State University, and founder of Beyond Policy LLC, has made it her mission to disrupt those toxic narratives by intentionally raising her daughter…
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