The love note is a blog that highlights various aspects of Blackness and femininity through honest conversation, reflections and story-telling from different Black femmes. Curated by our founder & creative director Olivia Fenty, this space will portray the ever-changing and complex journey that is
the Black femme experience.
the Black femme experience.
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mental health awareness month edition: oral interview w/ Saddie Baddies founder Priscilla
"So I think first and foremost, softness is about compassion. It's about self-compassion, it's about being somewhat... You're being your own friend. And I think I'm finally at the place now where I am my own friend, I am my own cheerleader, in a lot of ways, I am also still working through being hyper-critical of myself."
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creative conversations w/ Monewade - an oral interview
"I hope black femmes can identify all the ways that they already practice creativity um, because we’re already in the practice, we’re already creators, we’re already all artists um, and I think once that we're able to identify that and all the way that we practice creativity, whether it be here or our style, or just how we move about in the world".....
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wellness & organizing w/ Queen-Cheyenne
"We must see the need for healing, justice and liberation as interconnected to one another. It is not something any of us can reach on our own but through collective practices of healing, collective visions of justice and liberation; we move together towards care that hopes everyone in their complexities and needs..."
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- Black Motherhood w/ Atahja
"It is the little things that help to keep you grounded
when you feel you are losing the balance between motherhood and self care".... read more |
-mental Health & intimacy: an oral interview w/ Tara M."As a Black woman I feel like I've been a people pleaser role time and time again, that sometimes it's hard to even explore to explore what I actually desire, what I'm not so concerned with making somebody else happy"....
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- to be
"With that being said, loving ourselves fully and
publicly does not align with the narrative Black girls have been feed since birth. It makes us the focal point of all the love we are meant to “give away”. 
- an intimate conversation with a healer: Moe"Being a healer isn’t only about triggering healing within others, it’s being true to yourself so that you can relay truths to others and part of being true to yourself is digging up parts of yourself that you hide, disregard or need to pay attention..."
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- the changes you can't see
"We can all say be kind to yourself, love yourself,
adore yourself but you can’t do or even feel it if you’re rooted in self-misery or self-sabotage. These campaigns and slogans no longer become applicable to your life and at times leave you feeling like “am I really fucking changing?" 
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- 13 ways to love
yourself
"Love as the mountains move
Loud as the stones and rocks shake
As fierce as gravity.
Rub the filled parts of you
The sections that sometimes cut away from you
Like trash to earth, make it apart of you...."
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Loud as the stones and rocks shake
As fierce as gravity.
Rub the filled parts of you
The sections that sometimes cut away from you
Like trash to earth, make it apart of you...."
read more
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