Episode 54: Sweet Communion Will Save Us

I Can't Fux With You! Confessions of An Uppity Black Woman

We are fuxing with community today, as this is what I know will save us - it has to save us. It is so early in the year and we are at a crossroads. The alarm bells ring but I feel as if it is a dull noise in the background for those who don't wear the Uppity Black Woman label. In quick succession after Dr. Claudine Gay's dizzying constructive discharge from Harvard, we received the tragic news of another Black Woman in Higher Education. Dr. Antoinette Candia-Bailey, VP of Student Affairs at Lincoln University recently died by suicide. Emails written before her death illustrate that this Black Woman was subjected to sustained harassment and mental anguish from the (white man) President of the University, after disclosing her health issues which included anxiety and depression. Dr. Candia-Bailey did not receive support from the Administration, - including the Board, after relaying the maltreatment that she experienced. She was left to stand alone and bear the trauma OF a hostile workplace IN a hostile workplace. Dr. Candia-Bailey's out was to no longer be here with us. We, the Uppity Black Women, are dying by suicide at alarming rates, and I am frightened - scared for US.
It is in these times it is so critical to assess our personal positioning in the framework of community. Firstly, can you commune (commune can be with one person, as far as I am concerned, the two of ya'll are now a collective). Second, are you one that other Black Women can look to as life, meaning do you have the ability to offer community. It truly is the Community, the other Black Women who will save US. My prayer for US is that we all experience the life giving nature of sweet communion.
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REFERENCES IN TODAYS EPISODE

• Goddess Mbuya Nehanda - Goddess of Radical Rebirth
• 8 Reasons Why Poor Things Is A Feminist Masterpiece
• Suicide Rates Among Black Women and Girls Has Climbed for Two Decades
• OPINION: Dr. Antoinette Candia-Bailey's Tragic End Reminds Me How Much Empathetic Leadership Can Literally Be A Matter of Life or Death for Black Women
• bell hooks, Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery, Chapter 10 : Sweet Communion

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