Black Girl Culture - by Jensen McRae

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“Black Girl Culture” is a poem I wrote about all the experiences that I have taken for granted as just a part of life growing up as a Black girl in America, but have now realized are more than that. There is a constant emotional labor and weighing of other people’s moods and expectations. It has made me weak just as often as it has made me strong. And the compulsion to perform who I am for other people is something I am trying to transfigure into a performance I do only for myself.