Happy Women's History Month roommates! In honor of the transition from Black History Month to Women's History Month, we discuss the experience of those who exist in the margin between the two, Black women. In this episode we discuss the intersectional experience - from how we've been treated, things we've experienced, how we're perceived, how we express ourselves, and advice we would give our younger selves about navigating life as a Black woman.

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WE'RE BACK! We missed you and we hope you've missed us as well. Just 2 weeks ago, it was time again for the love event of the year...Valentine's Day! What better way to close out the month than to bring back the love conversation and expound on it. In this week's conversation, we discuss what "healthy" love means & looks like to us. As many of us have been exposed to countless examples of unhealthy love, we're looking to continue to change the narrative and focus on love that is conscious and intentional. Whether it be romantic, friendship, or familial love, we all deserve to receive the healthiest and purest form of love in world that's already so cruel. 

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A tale as old as time, a nuanced experience, and still a reality for us. On the social totem pole, Black grils & women are ranked dead last. Robbed of our youth, innocence, and autonomy, Black girls & women can never choose our race or gender first as we don't have that luxury. If you identify with this group, we're sure you've heard the phrase "stop acting grown" or "she's fast" or "go change, you're showing too much". From the jump, Black girls are not allowed to be children in comparison to our [other race] counterparts which bleeds into womanhood as we have to learn to mother our inner child and mend our relationship with sexuality. In this episode we explore the sexualization of Black girls and women starting with slavery, post-(legal)slavery stereotypes, the rise of hip hop, and where we stand today. 

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Source material:

- Selling Sexy: Hip Hop culture's commodification of Black female sexualization 

- The Historical Roots of the Sexualization of Black Women and Girls 

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Ah yes, the good ole girl code. Yes, its 2021 and we're STILL following our "girl code" rules that we made up in middle school, why? Because they apply. In this week's episode, we talk about girl code; what it means to us, our top girl code, and discuss a few girl code Dos and Donts that we got from this week's article. 

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Source material:

- Girl code: The unwritten Rules of Female Friendships 

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If you've listened to us long enough, you know we're quite literally over the idea of capitalism. In today's episode, we briefly discuss the movie "Judas and the Black Messiah" in the context of black capitalism vs black revolution and what that means to us and for us, as a community, today. From calls of gentrifying our neighborhoods, buying black our blocks, and consumming all black everthything, will the revolution still be televised? Or have we strayed too far from the light? 

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One thing America does really well is letting it be known how much it does not care about people who belong to disenfranchised groups. Whether it be through the lens of race, gender, sexuality, or ability...this country does not care. In today's sweet tea we discuss the cosby verdict in which the master chemist has been freed from prison after confessing to drugging and sexual assualting multiple women of which he was convicted for one. How is he free? Why is he free? How do we see cases like Cosby's show up in our everyday life? What contributes to the constant lack of injustice? These questions, and more, are what we attempt to answer in this episode. 

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We're back! This week's episode is a very special one as we're celebrating our 1 YEAR ANNIVERSARY! It's been such an amazing experience building Read The Room and producing content for you all. We've learned so much and we have even more in store for the podcast. Join us as we reflect on our experience in hosting this podcast, discussing our top 10 streamed episodes, and expressing what we hope to accomplish year 2! 

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This week, we take a new approach on a previous topic. In our prior introduction of "I just wanna be successful," we talked about it in the context of navigating coporate America but this time we take a more personal approach. We discussed what it means to be successful as defined by the most important person in your life...you. From the stressors that come with success, managing your success in relation to the people in your life, and paving a lane for yourself. This is I Just Wanna Be Successful Part 2!

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We begin the journey to bringing mental health to the forefront with our "navigating mental health" discussion. In today's episode, we tackle the broken relationship between the Black community and mental health. A relationship that's built on traditional beliefs concerning mental health, factors like systemic racism and financial issues, and disparities in mental health treatment. We also take a look into our inner child and what it looks like to metaphorically "mother" our inner child.

Articles:

- @lisaoliveratherapy

- https://www.verywellmind.com/exploring-the-mental-health-stigma-in-black-communities-5078964 

- https://www.harleytherapy.co.uk/counselling/what-is-the-inner-child.htm

Previous episodes discussed:

- Boundaries, How Many of US Have Them?!

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Apparently the correct colloquialism is to be "equally YOKED" not "equally YOLKED". Don't worry, it got us too. In today's episode, we discuss what it means to be equally yoked in a romantic partnership and briefly touch on platonic friendships. In it's literal interpretation, to be equally yoked with another person is to be "joined with the same." The same what? That's a question to be answered by you but it's important to take into consideration the the things you value the most, the life you live, and your nonnegotiables. At the end of the day, whether it be financial, morally, personality wise, career wise, etc., remember to do what works best for YOU! 

Previous episodes discussed:

- My Friends, Real Friends

- Don't you know that you're toxic?

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