“I want this work to be a catalyst for unlocking Black women being their full, unapologetic selves,” she said. “Growing up, Black women and girls are charged with the responsibility of protecting their own bodies, but they suffer the consequences of anything happening to that body. We have to shrink ourselves in order to make other people feel comfortable. If a Black woman is comfortable enough in her adulthood to be able to unlearn that, then that’s beautiful, but a lot of Black women don’t. There have been generations of Black women suppressing themselves and just going through the motions.”

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