🔥🔥🔥 This is such a powerful intro to the podcast! You beautifully weave together a range of voices to create a multi-layered explanation of what is ratchet about thriving. And how you cite folks feels like an introduction to friends aligned in purpose yet diverse in their expression.
And so much resonates today from your piece since I was just rereading a section from Minna Salami's Can Feminism Be African? on Shakara: “A conceivably gendered term, when it comes to women, shakara has an erotic power. Women who engage in shakara behaviour may do so through their fashion choices, demeanour and social interactions. They carry themselves with pose and self-assurance, demand to be treated with respect, and are selective about who they associate with. A women with a shakara mindset is simultaneously disobedient, powerful, serious, troublesome, wise, playful, tough, authentic and erotic--in the Audre Lorde-ian sense of the erotic as a source of power that both includes and transcends sexual passion” p. 149-150
Grateful for this post and excited for this podcast!❤️🔥✨🌱
Oh hell yes!!! Thank you Ben! Your support is always so reassuring and motivating. I'm especially delighted to learn about this connection and so happy that this article has landed as intended. I'm about to check out Sister Salami's work right neow.
🔥🔥🔥 This is such a powerful intro to the podcast! You beautifully weave together a range of voices to create a multi-layered explanation of what is ratchet about thriving. And how you cite folks feels like an introduction to friends aligned in purpose yet diverse in their expression.
And so much resonates today from your piece since I was just rereading a section from Minna Salami's Can Feminism Be African? on Shakara: “A conceivably gendered term, when it comes to women, shakara has an erotic power. Women who engage in shakara behaviour may do so through their fashion choices, demeanour and social interactions. They carry themselves with pose and self-assurance, demand to be treated with respect, and are selective about who they associate with. A women with a shakara mindset is simultaneously disobedient, powerful, serious, troublesome, wise, playful, tough, authentic and erotic--in the Audre Lorde-ian sense of the erotic as a source of power that both includes and transcends sexual passion” p. 149-150
Grateful for this post and excited for this podcast!❤️🔥✨🌱
Oh hell yes!!! Thank you Ben! Your support is always so reassuring and motivating. I'm especially delighted to learn about this connection and so happy that this article has landed as intended. I'm about to check out Sister Salami's work right neow.