Perspective: Black women are proving their strength by giving themselves permission to say no
“emotional neuroplasticity that allows us to absorb higher and higher levels of pain.” But that absorption comes at a cost.
worked in high-stress newsrooms and taught at cutthroat universities. She co-founded the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation, providing a creative space for Black writers in D.C. and wrote 18 books. And she often made success seem effortless.Then two years ago, just before turning 70, a visit to her doctor revealed that she had sustained two symptomless “silent” strokes. But the MRI could not indicate when either had occurred.
That annihilation begins early. Golden recalled being age 12 in a foot race with boys along the 1400 block of Harvard Street NW and passing a group of men who would “strip-search the passing girls and women with a gaze.
Seanna Leath, a psychologist at the University of Virginia, shared with Golden the results of a study that showed how some Black female students were wearing the stoic mask in preparation for working “in the White world.”
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