YOUR BODY IS A GARDEN, AND YOU ARE THE GARDNER
JOURDAN CHRISTOPHER PHOTOGRAPHY Buzz words such as self-love, self-preservation and self-care float around the internet. Our timelines are flooded with pictures of women with their girlfriends at the day spa. Some of us, including me, are guilty of a homemade turmeric and honey mask paired, with a good cup of warm, spiced, chai tea. While any method to promote self-care consciousness is important, the true definition often gets lost in translation. Self-preservation for the African-American woman is a means of survival. A black woman’s strength is resilient, yet continuously tested. Our strength blinds the need for support from the people closest to us. Black women are marginalized to the point where we have to dig deep inside of ourselves and start from scratch over and over again. We work twice as hard to get half of what we deserve and we carry our families on our backs through the hardest of times. However difficult our lives may be, we are often overworked and complet...
