By Traci Blackmon — 2019
One of the things I love most about the United Church of Christ is the professed wideness of our table.
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What better way to use Black History Month than as practice for creating a world that demands displays of Black joy and pleasure year-round?
For many of us, men with broad shoulders, narrow hips, taut muscles, and white skin — sun-kissed or pale under hot lights — became an ideal we couldn’t escape. We coveted images of these bodies like treasure, and they educated us in the rules of attraction.
Black women are 37 cents behind men in the pay gap—in other words, for every dollar a man makes, black women make 63 cents.
Many Black womxn experience themselves as fraudulent or substandard. It's a lie.
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