Don't Call Me Auntie

The Stoop

Hana Baba and Leila Day

Identity, International, Thestoop, Blackness, Storytelling, African, Personal Journals, Africanamerican, Blackidentity, Blackart, Journalism, Society & Culture, Black, Diaspora, Blackculture

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🗓️ 14 July 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

It’s a term of endearment but not everybody wants to be your “Auntie.” Today, Leila and Hana unravel some of the emotions and stereotypes tied to being an “Auntie.” They did into the deeper connections to ageism, the evolving meaning of the term, and discuss the weight of “respectability handles” within Black culture.

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0:00.0	She walks with a swagger.
0:04.0	She's pretty pulled together.
0:06.0	She wears her low-rise cigarette leg jeans
0:09.0	when the trend is clearly high-rise, wide-legged.
0:13.0	She does the electric slide at a party,
0:16.0	but she can also work the middle, you know,
0:20.0	till it hurts a little.
0:22.0	Ooh, work the middle till it hurts a little.
0:25.0	Okay, stay with me here.
0:28.0	Stay with me, Hannah.
0:29.0	Be full.
0:30.0	Okay.
0:34.0	She works hard, she plays hard.
0:37.0	She's the life of the party and sometimes the last one to leave it.
0:42.0	Or better, she's the one who leaves early
0:44.0	because there isn't anyone there that she's trying to impress.
0:48.0	She's celebrated in meetings because she says what she thinks.
0:53.0	And some parents, they give her the side eye
0:56.0	their teenagers go to her for advice.
0:59.0	Okay, Lila.
1:00.0	At this point, you really, really have to say
1:03.0	who you're talking about.
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