I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the rise in dietary supplements, weight-loss drugs, and the overwhelming desire many women seem to have to become physically smaller. It takes me back to the early 2000’s when “thin is in” was rammed down our throats. I was a teenager then and wanted so badly...

I recently watched a video of a woman on TikTok speaking about the downfall of Black women. How Black women are easy to manipulate and take advantage of. How Black women have no emotional intelligence. How Black women are always playing the victim. It begged the question: is it possible to rise w...