Black Girl
Assembly Blog
Essays, reflections, and field notes on leadership, healing, culture, and the systems shaping Black girls’ lives.
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The Boundary Was Never the Problem. You Negotiating With Yourself Was.
Setting limits is the easy part. Holding them when it gets uncomfortable is where most of us fold.
Last time, we talked about misalignment and how it’s an information problem, not a negotiation problem. Once you see it clearly, you stop trying to fix what was never broken in your favor to begin with. But here’s the part nobody talks about: what happens after you identify the misalignment and actually set a boundary?
Build the Girl, Build the World: Why LeadHers in Bloom Is the Investment You Keep Pretending Is Optional
Black girls make up 15% of girls in U.S. public schools and absorb 45% of out-of-school suspensions. That's not a behavior problem. That's a perception problem with a budget line. Georgetown Law calls it adultification bias. Adults see Black girls as young as five as less innocent and more adult-like than their white peers. LeadHers in Bloom is what an evidence-based answer looks like.
She Told the Truth on a Saturday Night
What the Megan Thee Stallion Pile-On Teaches Us About Becoming Black and Honest in Public
On Saturday night, Megan Thee Stallion told the truth on Instagram. By Sunday morning, the men with the biggest microphones in Black media had decided the problem was that she said it out loud. What we are watching this week has a name, a long history, and a direct line to every Black woman who has ever told the truth in a room organized to disbelieve her.