The “Strong Black Woman” Narrative Is Mentally Exhausting

追加: 2026-05-30

[00:00:00]or does is that more of like a trauma response? Yeah. So, what we're finding the shift in black women's mental health especially around perfectionism is right um we are rewarded by our own peers and like right non-black peers for our resilience and our strength. often with a lot of my friends it's like I'm tired of being God's strongest soldier like um but when people compliment us like if you think about some of the work that you do in your daily life um people are always commenting about how you >> um survive things so then it becomes rooted in this weird survival space of okay I'm really not doing anything un um unless I am doing everything completely right I can make no mistakes and that's really really