Black Girls Deserve Vulnerability—SZA Said it First
(02/13/26 5:00pm)
For years, young black girls have grown up hearing that we have to be strong. Strong enough to handle anything. Strong enough to stay quiet about our emotions and feelings. At the same time Black women are labeled as “angry,” or pushed into caretaker roles rooted in harmful stereotypes. Society constantly picks us apart, judging how we look, speak, and act or deciding whether we fit their narrow idea of what a Black girl should be.