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Continue reading →: 6 Things Black Women Over 40 Should Tell Young Black Women But Don’tI hate gatekeeping. It is really low behavior. Withholding valuable information because it took a lot for you to learn it, and why should it be easy for someone else? Trash. Or because you think people need to learn lessons the hard way? Trash, I say. And my next question is…
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Continue reading →: Black Woman, Anger Is Not Your FriendI keep seeing this social media post featuring Maya Angelou where she talks about anger being good. It’s the fire that burns away the dross, she says in her effortlessly lyrical way, and in the context that she provides, I agree. But most of the time? Anger is not the…
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Continue reading →: Creating a Blog Only for Black Women over 40 Is RacistI’ve heard this so many times it’s sad. I actually wish I had a bill for every time I’ve heard some variation of: “You shouldn’t just write for one group of people.” Or — this one is a personal favorite — “Why are you being so exclusive? Don’t you think…
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Continue reading →: Sis, Looking for Love Don’t Mean You Gotta Be StupidI’m in NC visiting a great friend who I haven’t seen in two years. She was in a doctoral program, I was getting a master’s, we wisely chose to forgo our yearly gathering in the name of higher education. So, anyway, she’s Dr. now — NYU, thank you very much…
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Continue reading →: Black Women, You’re Grown. You Don’t Need Your MommySo, Mother’s Day just passed. Day of I was scrolling social media and saw three Black women crying. I heard the word mother so I stopped and let the video play. I’ll try to find the post later and link it, but I recognized one of the women. A pundit…
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Continue reading →: Black Women Over 40, Tell that Lying Ass Family Member to Beat ItYou’ve heard the phrase, it be your own people? Yeah. Family members be on one. For real. They be some of the worst people to those they supposedly love. They will lie to you to get your money, lie to get free advice that they won’t take because it’s too much…
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Continue reading →: Pet to Threat Phenomena Is Real — and so Is Your Need to Be Selfish at WorkMoving from pet to threat means that boss who used to think you’re charming now sees you may be a threat to him or her.
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Continue reading →: The Pet to Threat Phenomena Is Real — and so Is Your Need to Be Selfish
You’ll know something’s not right almost immediately. It feels off. The way you’re looked at, or spoken to, or there’s a big change in behavior for no reason that you can identify. All you know is, you were cool with the boss. Now you’re getting attitude. As a Black woman,…
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Continue reading →: Black Women Over 40, I Wish You Would Work for FreeIt is absolutely wild to me that in this day and age, spring 2024, given the state of the world, there are still people out there who think that you should work for free. It’s baffling. Like, head scratching, are these fools crazy, what in the actual fuck is happening,…
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