Real Talk: A Book of Love Notes for Black & Brown Womxn

By Rikimah Glymph

This book was written as a series of love notes for Black and Brown womxn. While there are many parts of this book that every womxn at some point in her life can relate to, this book was intended to grapple with the day to day experiences that are unique to womxn of color specifically. These notes are meant to provide that inner voice of authenticity, hope, and to serve as a rally cry for you as Black and Brown womxn to never give up no matter what. This book was written for the every day Black and Brown womxn. This book was written for the womxn in leadership, in subsidized housing, that rock dreads or blue hair, that's supposedly too loud, that's never been uplifted, and who secretly or openly struggles with esteem and with enoughness to name a few. This book was written just for you. This book was written for us all whether we've got it together or not. So, if you're interested in being in community with other womxn around the world that are grappling with some of the same types of challenges, this book is for you. Understand that while you might go your entire life never having heard positive feedback or feeling seen, it is not okay and has to be addressed and changed. This book is meant to place the power back where it belongs. In your hands.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Glymph Consulting, LLC
• Release date: Sep 17, 2020
• ISBN: 9781662903991

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INTRODUCTION

It’s Wednesday around 5:14pm EST and I’m sitting here thinking about my life. Thinking about all of the sacrifices I’ve made, all of the people I’ve helped, all of the lives I’ve forever changed, and every single adversity that’s tried to take me out along the way. It’s 5:14pm EST and I’m sitting at home, writing. Writing from the heart. Writing from a place I haven’t been able to sit with for quite some time. Writing from a place that in this moment, is hyper saturated with some straight up bi-polar feelings. I’m both tired and energized. Sad and happy. Confused and clear. Patient and anxious. Reflective and in denial. Worried and relieved. All things present and yet, all I can do is call it processing. LOL. Processing which will, according to my past, lead me to clarity and a pathway forward. Or so I hope. While today feels like a hot-ass mess for many reasons that include feeling undermined, being overlooked for an opportunity, having someone take credit for my work, being silenced in a room full of men, etc., what I know is that tomorrow’s story will feel the same unless I figure out a way to constructively deal with how I feel which includes coming up with a plan for how I’ll be addressing my issues of today, tomorrow.

As I look out of the window steadily drawing mental blanks, I’m reminded that everything and everyone has a story… a history. A history that continues to help shape and mold us into who we are today and who we will become moving forward. My history is one full of deep adversity, worry, excitement, reward,