Black Girl IRL

Whatever happened to the regular Black girl?The one who works a 9 to 5 or maybe owns her own business or is completing her master¿s. Or how about the one who is figuring out how to be a good mom or wife or daughter? Or the one that¿s doing all of the above? Hi, that¿s a lot of us. Black women are doing it all, and it¿s not just the Oprahs and Beyonces. There¿s an entire group of us that are just, well, regular. We¿re handling things like figuring out if this is the right time to speak up in that work meeting and risk our opinion now being the ¿voice¿ for all Black women at our job or if this is the right night to introduce our silk hair bonnet to our nighttime routine in the relationship that is just getting serious. These experiences range from impactful to trivial life decisions, but they shape who are. So where is our place for this type of girl-talk and unfiltered sharing? Gail Hamilton Azodo is your thirty-something, corporate-ladder-climber turned entrepreneur, mom, wife, and Bla