Empowering For The Future

Click here for the latest blog post! Click here to subscribe to my YouTube channel! Type "cute" into Google Search, click Images and let me know what you see Is it just me or when someone says "you're cute" and attempt to be romantic about it, it's an insult?  Do you ever get tired of hearing that and feeling insulted or average? {In the words of this generation, "basic"} When you hear "cute" do you not think of puppies? Puppies are adorable... therefore, cute is the new adorable. Yes, it's a spin-off of Orange is the New Black  which is a great show, btw. But when I hear cute now, I try my best to correct them. Simply saying AND believing "I'm beautiful" is setting high expectations and also kind offffff expanding people's vocabulary. Cute, sweet, pretty, hot, and fine are not typically terms of beauty you want to hear so why not set higher expectations? Say you went out to Jazz Night ...

Happy 4 years to Empowering For The Future! Every year, I take this day to reflect on the fact that I actually made it this far. I never thought I would commit to something like this and that it would contribute to my growth. This blog is my testimony! When I first started this blog, everything was looking hopeful. I thought I finally found people, women specifically, who I could trust and establish a lifetime friendship with. Of course, I was wrong. However, my overall experience with women and empowerment has been apart of my purpose and looking back, it's always been staring at me in my face. Empowering for the Future's original creation was to be a hobby and strictly for empowering women. Once again, me being wrong was a turn further into my purpose. I had no idea that politics, social justice, activism, and empowerment were all things that would come from this blog. This blog is used as an agency and way of expressing my views as a millennial, black, woman whi...