This week Skye and Amanda read Carefree Black Girls: A Celebration of Black Women in Pop Culture by Zeba Blay and discuss how negative stereotypes and identities continue to follow us women through everyday life, pop culture, and beyond. Listen in as the two discuss what they consider their definition of a carefree girl by using examples of Black women in pop culture who have shown them what it means to show up as their true selves, take up space and have fun while doing it.

 Amanda finds inspiration to practice being more carefree in particular areas of her life while challenging her prior programming that might dimmed this light. Skye discusses how she plans on continuing to be carefree and recognizes the areas that she has questioned herself for the sake of "not being too much". Both hosts ultimately commit to a new goal which is to live a joyous life regardless of any adversity.

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Carefree Black Girls: A Celebration of Black Women in Popular Culture by Zeba Blay

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Check out what Skye & Amanda have been loving this week:
Thoughts of a Colored Man on Broadway

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