Trigger warning: sexual abuse
Inspired by Audre Lorde's "Eye to Eye: Black Women, Hatred and Anger," I'm sharing my thoughts on the typecasting of black women in terms of hypersexuality, trauma and abuse and attempting to contextualise it in history and theory; I am also trying to explain the unconscious lack of grace we offer to black women. Examples include but are not limited to: Nina Simone, Billie Halliday, Maya Angelou, Whitney Houston and Cicely Tyson. In recording this, I hope to humanise these women but also acknowledge how integral these elements of their lives were to their upbringing. I also attempt to explain the space between what it means to be *Black versus what it means to encapsulate blackness.
