Sandra
Black woman, late 30's, early 40's. Scholar, Professor of Political Science, sturdy, compassionate with students, protected with her own emotions, and striking spirit in the face of institutional racism.
"This is what it means to be at this institution. To know deep in your core that there will never be justice for you here."
Sandra
S10/P89
"Women respond to racism. My response to racism is anger. I have lived with that anger, ignoring it, feeding upon it, learning to use it before it laid my visions to waste, for most of my life. Once I did it in silence, afraid of the weight. My fear of anger taught me nothing. Your fear of that anger will teach you nothing, also."
-Audre Lorde
AUDRE LORDE, “THE USES OF ANGER: WOMEN RESPONDING TO RACISM” (1981)
Sandra
S9/P102
"Get out of my office. GET THE MOTHERFUCK OUT!!!!!!!!!"
SANDRA knocks things off of her desk in a rage. No one dares move.
After a moment, she looks around herself,
finally free and simultaneously defeated.
How the “Strong Black Woman” Identity Both Helps and Hurts
BY KARA MANKE
Being a "superwoman" could help African American women cope with racial discrimination—but it may have some drawbacks.
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In 2012 Amani M. Allen, Ph.D. conducted research as part of the African American Women’s Heart and Health Study study exploring:
“I remember them talking about being strong black women and describing it both as a kind of armor, but also potentially as a liability,” Allen said. “For example, what does it mean to continue to have an intense motivation to succeed, while you’re also experiencing barriers to achieving that success? So, I wanted to know, is being a strong black woman helpful, or harmful, for health?”
The study findings add to a growing body of research demonstrating how the stress associated with racial discrimination becomes biologically embedded.
Sandra
S1/P2
“...No shame in my own heritage around the brutality and demoralization and humanity of slaves. NO SHAME. And yet… It was hanging on my office door. After office hours…”
Candice & Sandra
S5/P42-43
CANDICE Isn’t it hard though? Being a woman in academia.You seem so strong and resilient. It’s almost like you’re inhuman. Just so fierce. How do you do it? …Professor?
SANDRA Inhuman.
CANDICE Or maybe superhuman?
SANDRA God. Is that what you see?
Black Women, Let Your Anger Out
(Illustration by Noa Denman)
Sandra
(S5/P36)
"Social unrest doesn’t mean you stop having personal problems. We live in a society of multiple realities."
Empress Onyx
TikTok Scholar
Individual World Poetry Slam
Finals 2014
Porsha O.
"Angry Black Woman"
Olayiwola is a writer, performer, educator and curator who uses afro-futurism and surrealism to examine historical and current issues in the Black, woman, and queer diasporas. She is an Individual World Poetry Slam Champion and the founder of the Roxbury Poetry Festival. Olayiwola is Brown University's 2019 Heimark Artist -In -Residence as well as the 2021 Artist-in-Residence at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. She is a 2020 poet laureate fellow with the Academy of American poets.
Sandra
S9/P101
"I’m a target. A source of ridicule. Because I don’t give you what you want when you want it, the way that makes you comfortable…"
This is the anchor that Nataki mentioned today in rehearsal (7/8).
CNN anchor and senior political correspondent Abby Phillip joins the podcast to discuss what it was like covering the White House and former President Donald Trump.
Law professor rebukes Josh Hawley’s ‘transphobic’ line of questioning in abortion rights hearing
In a series of extraordinary testimony to a Senate committee on the future of abortion in the US after the dissolve of Roe v Wade, an abortion rightsadvocate and law professor issued a sharp rebuke to Republican Senator Josh Hawley, who appeared to dismiss that transgender people could become pregnant.
