In recent years, social media has become a platform where Black Women and girls candidly share aspects of their lives, thoughts and strategies for navigating society. However, this openness has sometimes led to problematic narratives.
This was not something I originally thought was worthy to bring attention to, but it highlights several topics I’ve previously discussed which I will reinforce.
I recently re-read All About Love by Bell Hooks which is an insightful book where she offers the readers, radical new ways to think about love. Many aspects of the book were insightful to me (I suggest you read it if you haven’t already!) but there’s one chapter early on in the book that caught my attention where she talks about honesty and somewhat criticises the aspect of patriarchal femininity that sees women’s deception as acceptable and as always, a range of things came into my mind.
