black women are awesome!!! - tasha hunter
WHY CELEBRATE BLACK WOMEN?
Malcolm X said, “The most disrespected person in America is the Black woman. The most unprotected person in America is the Black woman. The most neglected person in America is the Black woman.” As a Black woman in America, I can’t deny that all too often this feels too true.
The only thing I can do to combat and defeat the out-and-out indignities we face is to rigorously exude an uncompromising, excessive, and abundant self-love – because to properly love myself is to ruthlessly love my Black sisters. It’s an easy task because there’s just so much to love about us.
For me, this is reason enough to celebrate!
TASHA HUNTER IS AWESOME! CHECK OUT THIS EXCERPT FROM HER BOOK:
The hardest part of recounting the experiences of my life has been the arduous process of inching my way forward on this emotional tightrope of speaking my truth, while protecting the ones who (central to my recovery) have robustly inspired me—and challenged me—to share the details of my life with candid honesty. In the process of writing my book, I have felt high-strung, heart-palpitating emotions arising from the fear of judgment by people who knew me at certain points of my life, and by extension, think they know who I am now.
What kept me writing in spite of the fear of scrutiny is remembering the little girl I was who desperately needed to hear this exact story—for every girl who feels utterly alone on an emotional island, emotionally battered and spent while waiting for a noble cavalry to rescue her and fight on her behalf. Even now, as a fully actualized adult who knows the value of my contributions, while writing the book, I still imagined the text and phone conversations this book might elicit among my family and friends: “Girl, did you know she did that? Why would she share that? She should have taken that one to the grave.” These doubts held me captive until I stamped them out by taking full authorship of my story. This memoir isn’t written for the critics—it’s for those of you who are reading this book because you recognize that a part of your personal story is also a part of mine. This is a book for those of us who are tired of hiding…
5 RANDOM QUESTIONS AND A BONUS ONE FOR TASHA HUNTER
If you could retire tomorrow with enormous wealth, what would you do all day?
I would be completely gluttonous of any and all forms of pleasure. I would still keep my therapist/healer job but I would do the work—my passion and purpose—from various corners all over the world.
What’s more important to you…the ride or the destination?
I lack patience so I don’t like the ride. I want to hurry to the destination. I like to see the fruits of my labor vs focusing on the labor.
Poetic Justice, Love and Basketball, Jason's Lyric, or Waiting to Exhale?
It’s the friendship for me. Waiting to Exhale all the way.
What song describes your life right now?
Mary J Blige’s Glow Up and Tasha Cobb Leonard’s You Know My Name.
Monica or Brandy? Who won that?
Yikes this is hard!!! I meannn I guess Brandy won that one— ionno!
BONUS: Favorite quote from a historical or living female elder...
”You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.” Toni Morrison
HOW YOU CAN SUPPORT AND ENCOURAGE TASHA:
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