5 Ways Black Women Can Begin Leaning Towards "Unproductivity" In A System That Demands Labor

Brown Girl Self-Care

Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Education

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🗓️ 10 October 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Hey, hey! Right off the bat I'm letting you know that a little cussing is involved in this episode, mmkay? Ok!

With that said, I'm sharing my thoughts with you on what it means for Black women to be productive and ways to consider shifting away from this idea that our worthiness depends on what parts of us/our labor can be monetized as we grind and burn out.

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0:00.0	Hey, hey, you are listening to the Brown Girl Self-Care podcast.
0:04.0	My name is Bri Mitchell. I am the host of the show, as well as the founder of Brown Girl
0:09.2	Self-Care. This is your first time tapping in. I just want to welcome you. If you've been
0:13.9	here for a while, thanks for coming back. Here we talk about really in and everything pertaining
0:19.6	to self-care for black women, just want to see us all get to where the healing resides,
0:23.6	and where we feel more accepting of ourselves, more self-love, more whole, like all of these
0:28.5	beautiful things, right, that we are deserving of. So, as I want to continue to do, when
0:35.5	I remember, I want to invite you to slow down while you listen to this episode, let's spend
0:40.0	some time together, make some tea, go grease your scalp, do something girl, just go and
0:45.4	have several seats while we dive into today's topic. Now, I do want to say off the top
0:51.4	that my neighbor's dog decided to start barking literally as I decided to record this episode.
1:00.4	So, you may or may not hear that, like he's barking right now. I don't know if that's picking up
1:05.0	or not. So, I don't believe in perfectionism. So, I'm going to just keep it rolling. All right,
1:11.2	all right. So, I want to talk about today productivity. I feel like productivity has become a whole
1:19.2	scam. I mean, I don't know if that's how you feel, but that's definitely how I feel. And so,
1:24.2	I want to just get into that topic of what it means to be productive here as a black woman,
1:29.5	at least from my perspective. And I want to give you some, really, some things that I feel like
1:35.5	will help us to be unproductive, because I mean, that for me is self-care, right? And maybe you'll
1:45.0	understand why after I define what productivity is. So, this is according to the dictionary, okay?
1:50.6	What is productivity? Productivity means the quality, state, or fact of being able to generate,
1:57.5	create, or bring forth goods and services. So, to me, that's like AKA productivity has been fully
2:05.4	colonized. So, everything we do must be monetized or of importance or used to someone else in order
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