For the Love of Black Women ! Ft. Crystle Johnson & Rachel Z. Harris | We Ain't Dying For This

So you've actually sat at one of our cannery tables, so this question will sound very familiar to you to tell me who you are without telling me what you do.

I am a Multi-hyphenate, hippie, advocate, artist, lover of nature that loves to dote on Black

women.

And you do.

And you do.

And that is my favorite thing for sure.

And then tell me how, tell us how you dote on Black

women.

I love to create spaces where Black women can show up and be themselves.

I love to especially create spaces where they can be irreverent and shed some of the titles, roles, responsibilities, obligations that you and I both know have become crippling so that they can open up to their own inspiration, their own dreams and desires.

And I tend to enjoy just sitting back and watching what magic happens when black women are truly themselves and truly feel free.

Yeah, that is so connected with our mission at Kennery, because we want to create spaces where black women can belong, where they don't have to overperform, they don't have to shrink, they don't have to do anything else, but just show up as they are.

And I think something you said that was really important is like, creating and dreaming and all these different things.

And a lot of times we don't have space to do those things because of the spaces that we have occupied in corporate America, in the US specifically, is what we're talking about.

But because we've been in those spaces and we're required to think about the meeting before the meeting before the meeting, we're just doing so much overthinking.

To

be in a space where you don't have to think at all, where you just get to show up and be who you are, I don't think that people understand how important those types of spaces are.