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Top Things Black Women Need to Leave in 2024

Plus a free gift for you!

9 min readJan 1, 2025

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Wednesday, 1st of January 2025 — Saying Bye To What No Longer Serves Us, and My Free Gift To You

“You’re average at best…”

This is what I heard in the shower as I was mentally thinking about the theme and planning for the last newsletter for 2024, and this week’s column as we start the new year.

I was recalling the things that have impacted Black women the most in 2024 and what we need to leave behind. If your memory serves you correct, this was the catch phase of the late ( but certainly not great) adoptive daddy of Black men in the Manosphere — Kevin Samuels.

This catch phase of his did what it was designed to do up until his death and beyond — humble Black women, and tread on their self-esteem. The evidence of this we saw as Black women flocked to this man’s YouTube space while he was alive and posting shit on his channel, asking him to be “rated” on how desirable they are as women.

The truth is Black women are not “average at best,” we’re above average, extraordinary, capable, and beautiful. Make no mistake Black men in…

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Me and My Muse
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A Londoner, essayist, crime fiction writer, humanitarian, avid reader. Writing about 'womanist' topics, race, gender, society, and what's important worldwide.

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