16. Paying it Forward Before You’ve Been Paid with Asha Boston

The Secret Lives of Black Women

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🗓️ 5 December 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

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What does it mean to be a gentrifier? Charla and Lauren contemplate what this means when you are a black woman moving to a city like New York City. Asha Boston was born and raised in Brooklyn and knows all about what it looks like for folks to come into a new neighborhood but have little understanding of the history behind it. In this episode, she talks about what that history looks like, how she channeled her background to design a Nike shoe and what it looks like to pay it forward You can find more about The SLBW at https://www.instagram.com/theslbw/ Follow SLBW on Twitter and Instagram @theslbw Find Asha Boston @AshaKayB on Instagram and Twitter

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0:00.0	If I see other people doing things that are their wildest dreams, like I just can't fathom how come I can't do that too?
0:09.0	In the experience I've had being in the entertainment industry talking about gentrification with
0:13.5	different people can be such a it can be such a touchy subject. It's like this place
0:19.0	that I felt like I grew up in and that I belong to all of a sudden I feel like a stranger because no
0:24.6	one sees you anymore.
0:27.0	Someone the other day told me that I'm paying it for it before I've been paid and I'm like
0:30.6	I've never felt anything on a more deep and spiritual level in my life because you know it's
0:37.4	a little tough coming through as an entrepreneur sometime.
0:41.7	This is the secret lives of black women.
0:44.0	I'm Lauren.
0:45.0	I'm Charlotte and today we're talking gentrification, which feels pretty appropriate, seeing
0:51.1	as Lauren and I are both gentrifiers.
0:54.0	You notice that hard pause there.
0:59.0	So I have been a gentrif-
1:02.0	Yeah, you know I have been a gentrification.
1:03.0	Yeah, you know, I have complicated feelings about gentrification
1:06.4	because I'm from New Orleans and I rail against it all the time
1:12.0	because it is truly changed the shape of our city and
1:16.1	I don't think in all necessarily like good ways it's you know fucked up a lot of
1:21.3	the essence but I will say that even though I get so angry about it
1:26.0	when I was in my mid-20s, meeting you actually, Sharla,
1:30.0	I moved to New York and I totally moved to Bushwick in an apartment building and
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