19. Listening to Yourself with Mikki Kendall

The Secret Lives of Black Women

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🗓️ 2 January 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Mikki Kendall is an author, activist, cultural critic and more. She’s written several books and created the viral Twitter hashtag #Solidarityisforwhitewomen which Lauren distinctly remembers following. The hashtag started a conversation about intersectional feminism which we get into during this episode. We also chat about living in your purpose and what happens when you don’t listen to your body. You can find more about The SLBW at https://www.instagram.com/theslbw/ Follow SLBW on Twitter and Instagram @theslbw Find Mikki Kendall @Karnythia on Twitter

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0:00.0	But sometimes when you're not living in your purpose, you're so much more stressed out and you're so much more miserable and everything is so much harder than just doing the thing you want it to do in the first place.
0:12.0	And I often think when we're talking about feminism that the
0:18.3	meaningful taking care of all of the women part of feminism gets lost in narratives about how to have more power
0:25.7	and be equal, frankly, to white men.
0:30.2	I'll also say that I think a lot of things that we're told we should be ashamed of,
0:35.0	really everyone's going through them.
0:38.0	It's just that not everyone's admitting that they're going through them.
0:44.0	Sometimes you have to choose you.
0:46.0	You have to be selfish.
0:48.0	Because if you don't love you,
0:50.0	if you don't take care of you,
0:52.0	no one else will.
0:56.0	This is the Secret Lives of Black Woman.
0:58.0	I'm Lauren, I'm Charla.
1:00.0	And today we're talking to Mickey Kendall,
1:02.6	like Mickey Kendall Renaissance woman.
1:05.3	She does all the things.
1:06.2	Mickey is a...
1:07.0	You probably follow her on Twitter.
1:08.5	You definitely follow her on Twitter.
1:10.3	She's an author, an activist, a cultural critic.
1:13.2	Her work often focuses on cultural events, media representation,
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