Black folks, especially Black women, are exhausted. We have tried, and tried, and tried again to save this country from itself. And, we continue to be ignored, unheard, gaslit, and abused in the process. Many of us felt like we did our part in this fight by being the only group to show up in droves and vote for Kamala Harris in the last election while the rest of the nation, once again, let us down. With that defeat and grief came a clearer boundary from Black women: we will no longer carry a country that keeps choosing to abandon us:

It’s Women’s History Month — what honest progress can we say we’ve made in the lives of American women, especially American mothers? To answer this question, we must be honest about the direct correlation between white supremacy and womanhood and motherhood in the United States.