Dr. Taylor Cummings

So there's a lot of great scholars who talk about unpacking that.

But me personally, I've been really leaning more into like Africana womanism as a framework.

And maybe there is a hip hop womanism out there.

And if it's not, maybe I can write about it.

But I think really understanding what that looks like.

And how, you know, feminism, we know the history with that and how that's been co-opted against black folks and black women in particular.

But then also even when there is black feminism, I use that in my dissertation, Black Feminist Thought, but it still wasn't really getting at what I wanted to get at.

But it was foundational in terms of my progression and just, you know, got to do what I got to do.

And so then I ended up coming across Africana womanism.

And I really like it because it talks a lot about the family system and the mother, the father and the child.

And that also goes back to the Holy Trinity.

And so how you got two men making a baby, you know, and so understanding what that looks like.

Yeah.

So if you go back to the mother, the son and the child and what that really is and how we've removed the feminine aspect of divinity and say, you know, is it important for us to really critique and consider?

So you should have that.

It's like almost like unappealing if it's not abusive or oppressive.

And we abuse ourselves because of it.

We punish ourselves because of it, because we don't really know what it feels like to be free.

And so when we have it for me personally, I'm like, OK, I'm waiting for the next shoe to drop.

I'm waiting for that next thing to happen.