Badass Ladies You Should Know

It’s only recently that I realized that what I think of as my quirky pseudo-negative approach to things is seen by more people as Angry Black Woman, and I don’t know how to navigate that when I consider that my righteous, earned, educated rage just looks like a cliché to others.

— This week’s Badass Lady, Sarah Hannah Gómez ( shgmclicious ) on how she does – or doesn’t – deal with negativity.

(Source: katehart.net)

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In 10th grade, we had to bring in a poem that we liked and read it aloud. I had just seen the movie “Poetic Justice” (I was going through a Tupac phase), so I brought in Maya Angelou’s “Phenomenal Woman,” which I knew almost immediately was not a good choice for high school, but I don’t listen to myself generally. This dudebro in my class, who had previously complimented my good taste in rap music, asked after I read it, “Hannah, are you a feminist?” And I knew right then that the fact that my answer was yes but that he wasn’t actually asking what he was asking meant that I had to choose my answer very carefully–and that I had to feel insulted even though I knew it shouldn’t be an insult, and that I would be labeled.

— Librarian and activist Sarah Hannah Gómez shares a moment that galvanized her understanding of feminism.

(Source: katehart.net)

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