7 Black Women Who Have Style in 2021 | Sex Toys

We are deeply involved Black History Month again: that time of year when the stories (written and unwritten) of black people, black power, black struggles, black voices, black influence, black art, and black achievement get a little more attention than they should. should occur throughout the year, in a handful of countries, anyway. They don’t quite overlap in February, but they do intersect nonetheless, International Women’s Daycommemorated every year around the world on March 8th to celebrate and highlight women, their power, their struggles, their voices, their influence, their art and their achievements. Why do we need special months and days like these? Because the world as we know it is a mess and needs adjustments, reorientations, destruction, creations and healing, for starters.

In honor and recognition of some of the most incredible people working in the world today, I am pleased to highlight these 7 badass Black women making an impact in 2021.

Amanda Gorman

Twenty-two year old American poet and activist Amanda Gorman captivated the world when she read her poem “The hill we climb“at the inauguration of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on January 20. But she began her current goddess trajectory years earlier. She published her poetry collection He for whom food is not enough in 2015, and was the first person to be appointed National winner of the Young Poet Prize. His work focuses on the themes of oppression, feminism, race, marginalizationand the African DiasporaIf you’re looking for an inspiring read, check out Michelle Obama interviewing Gorman about black art for TIMEGorman’s first children’s book, Change singsis available now, and his upcoming poetry collection The hill we climb East yet to come.

Stacey Abrams

Stacey Abrams Abrams is an American politician, attorney, voting rights activist, and author who served in the Georgia House of Representatives from 2007 to 2017. She has been widely recognized and praised for her key role in mobilizing Black voters in Georgia, which effectively turned the longtime Republican stronghold into a narrow Democratic victory in the 2020 election. Abrams founded the New Georgia Project (NGP) in 2014, an organization that helps mobilize voters of color. Currently, the NGP, along with several other organizations that mobilized Black voters, is under investigation in a move that critics are calling “intimidation tactics.’ Check out his New York Times co-ed, “How to Turn Your Red State Blue,” here.

Shanice Nicole

Shanice Nicole is a Black feminist educator, facilitator, writer, and artist based in Montreal, Canada. She curates free local community resources such as All Black Everything in Montreal, a living document designed to connect and promote people, businesses, organizations, and resources in Montreal’s Black community, and Jobs and thingsa free community resource that connects people with employment, volunteer, artistic and other opportunities. In 2019, it began a fundraising initiative for members of the local Black and Indigenous community, which has so far raised and redistributed more than $70,000. Her first children’s book, Dear Black Girlsis hot off the press and takes the form of a celebratory letter to all black girls, reminding them how special, gifted and worthy of love they are.

Charlene Carruthers

Charlene Carruthers is a Black, queer feminist activist and author whose work focuses on developing broad-based political participation and leadership in marginalized communities. Carruthers has often criticized the Chicago Police Departmentorganizing demonstrations on the fatal shooting of 22-year-old Rekia Boyd. In 2013, she helped found Black Youth Project 100a transformative movement campaign to eliminate the many forms of gender-based violence faced by Black women, girls, femmes, and gender non-conforming people, and serves as the organization’s national director. In 2018, she published Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movementsa manifesto intended to disrupt political, economic and social norms by reimagining the black radical tradition.

Cori Bush

Cori Bush is an American politician, registered nurse, pastor, former homeless single mother, Ferguson activist, and AOC Team Member acting as a (progressive democrat) Representative of the United States For Missouri’s 1st Congressional DistrictIn August 2020, Bush defeated the 10-term incumbent president. Laced clay in tthe primary elections, widely considered a historic upset, as her victory ended the Clay family’s 52-year hold on the district. Her interest in politics began after she was assaulted by police during the 2014 revolt Protests in Ferguson in response to the shooting death of Michael Brown. Bush is a strong supporter of criminal justice And police reform, right to abortion, Health insurance for alla $15 bill minimum wage, Free public university and vocational schooland student debt cancellation.

Bianca Guest

Author and activist Bianca Guest was born in Uganda and came to Canada as a child. She is the director of Canadian Foreign Policy Institutewhere she works to hold the Canadian government accountable for the violence anti-black of its foreign policy. She is also the former co-executive director of a broad-based climate change organization The jumpand former campaign coordinator at the Montreal Centre for the Fight against Gender, where she organized popular education events on gender-based and racial violence, systemic racism, violence against indigenous women, sexual assault, reproductive justice and transgender struggles, to name a few. She is also co-author Stop Signs: Cars and Capitalism on the Road to Economic, Social and Ecological Decline, an unflinching challenge to car culture and the capitalist structures it supports.

Rachel Cargle

Rachel Cargle is a Black American author, speaker, consultant, educator, and anti-racist activist known for her poignant and empathetic critiques white feminismShe founded The Loveland Foundation Following on from her wildly successful 2018 anniversary fundraiser, “Therapy for Black Women and Girls,” the idea being that Black women and girls deserve access to healing and that meaningful healing has a positive intergenerational effect. Her social media community has raised over $250,000, providing therapy to Black women and girls across the United States. Today, the Loveland Foundation is focused on providing opportunity and healing to communities of color, particularly Black women and girls.

If that’s not a solid source of inspiration for Black History Month, International Women’s Day, and every other time of year, then I don’t know what is. It’s always important to raise the voices that understand what’s at stake. Let’s face it: our lives depend on it. <3