What is it about the perceived conservative culture of Blackness and Black households that often leads to clutched pearls when topics of sex, dating and intimacy are all on the table? Meanwhile we can always find that one Auntie that has been there done that ...and would HIGHLY recommend.

Then you have us… the new wave of black feminist who put it on the table and will question your discomfort. Why do black feminists push against sexual respectability?

“If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining, her agency.” – Bell Hooks

“I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.” – June Jordan