Sheinelle Jones

because I know how precious it is to be able to have the good moments.

And so if something is funny, it's freaking funny.

If something is sad, it's really sad.

This for me, even though I'm talking about something that is awful, this is joy for me because it's a beautiful conversation and I hope we can do a lot of good.

I talked about not being able to find me.

Even people of color, young girls of color, there just aren't a lot of, and we hurt too,

And I just don't see us.

I think culturally we're taught to be the strong ones and the strong women and we're the bedrock.

And so as hard as it is for a lot of people to grieve, I realize that I have layers that I didn't even know that I had that make it harder to be vulnerable or to allow myself to have this pain.

There's a cultural thing.

There's a generational thing.

I looked to my grandmother when she lost my grandpa.

They had been married for 69 years and

She's a pillar in Wichita where I grew up, and he was.

When things are hard, we'd be out to dinner.

You know what happens after we eat, and I'm like, let's get up.

My mom and my grandmother are taking out their lipstick.

They're opening the thing.

We're this.

We're not this.