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I love my career. However, I had fallen out of love with my place of employment. Because I loved working with my students, I put off the inevitable...for way too long. But, as often happens when we finally face what w...

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In today's society, it is so hard to come across interesting people. I long for stimulating conversation about engaging topics. As we age, adult responsibilities take priority and people lose their curiosity, I guess. ...

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So, I, like everyone else, have been seeing these crazy 'Karen' videos. Obviously, it's not new to us that White people have always felt entitled to police our existence in spaces they feel we don't \"belong\"; spaces such...

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Yep, I'm allowed to have standards and...NO, that doesn't make me bougie. \nHave I mentioned that I hate the word bougie? I feel like the word 'bougie' is a way of trying to put a Black woman \"in her place\" if she dares...

","url":"https://cultivatedblerd.godaddysites.com/f/im-allowed-to-have-standards","title":"I'm Allowed to Have Standards","summary":" Yep, I'm allowed to have standards and...NO, that doesn't make me bougie. \nHave I mentioned that I hate the word bougie? I feel like the word 'bougie' is a way of trying to put a Black woman \"in her place\" if she dares...","date_modified":"2020-07-06T17:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://cultivatedblerd.godaddysites.com/f/lets-discuss-relationships","html_content":"

I'll admit it...I'm a YouTube junkie. Part of the reason for starting this blog is not only to form a community for Black women where we can discuss our issues/experiences in a world not built for us, but also to get ou...

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Deeply saddened.

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\"I'm a strong, Black woman\" is/was a mantra for many Black woman. I was never one of those women. I never wore that label as any type of identifier nor as a badge of honor. But, for many Black women this became a \"pos...

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I'm probably about to piss off more than few people with this one...

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\"We are not a monolith.\" This saying has been a buzz phrase in our culture in recent years. And while I agree, we are not a monolith, I can assuradely say, growing up as a blerd female in the South, it sure felt like w...

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My road to positivity has not been an easy one. To put it mildly, I grew up in a very dysfunctional household. To cope with that environment, I started reading self-help books during my early teenage years. I would s...

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Where to begin...well, this is my first post (as if that needs to be state, right?) I know blogs are a wee bit outdated since the extreme explosion of social media. However, the writing of this blog is a necessity in t...

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