(Replay) Black Women Must Forever Have Their Faces "Fixed" vs Our Humanity Honored

Brown Girl Self-Care

Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Brown Girl Self-Care is a space where Black women come to honor our humanity and reclaim our power in a world that takes us for granted. Here, choosing ourselves—our healing, our joy, and our rest—is an act of radical resistance and deep self-love.

In this episode, we’re exploring the emotional toll that masking takes on Black women. We’ll start with a few deep breaths to create a calming space and then dive into my journey of setting boundaries and acknowledging my emotions, reminding us that healing can bring up some friction.

We’ll also unpack the societal pressures Black women face to mask their true feelings, using Angela Bassett’s reaction at the Oscars as an example. This conversation critiques cultural expectations that demand we hide our pain to keep others comfortable, and instead encourages us to embrace our humanity, honor our emotions, and create spaces where we can be authentic.

Let’s take this journey together—we are worthy of this care.

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0:58.3	Hey, hey, you're listening to the Brown Girl Self Care Podcast. Now, record scratch. Your girl,
1:03.8	Bree, I'm on sabbatical right now. Just like I told you, I was going to be at the beginning
1:08.1	of this month, but I'm not going to leave you hanging.
1:11.7	You know, I always come through with something for you every Monday. And today is no
1:16.9	difference. So I've gone back into the archives and got an episode for you today that really
1:23.3	has some gems and nuggets for you as we make our way into 2025. So light your candle, get you
1:31.6	some chamomile tea or whatever you want to drink. And don't forget your journal. Let's go ahead and
1:37.2	get into today's episode. In today's episode, I want to talk about women, us, being forced to mask, being forced to show up.
1:49.8	But before I get into today's episode, I like to, first of all, invite you into the space.
1:55.3	Go ahead and take a breath with me.
1:57.0	If you don't mind, we're going to inhale through the nose and exhale through the mouth here we go
2:02.1	inhale and exhale let's go ahead and do that one more time. Inhale and exhale through the mouth.
2:25.0	Just wanted to take a few deep cleansing breaths because I'm just feeling a little
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