36”x60”

Acrylic & Oil on Canvas

The notion that women of color have to fight for everything began generations before each one of us. It pre-dates to colonialism (and probably even before that), when our men were taken away or had to leave the home to fight for our people. This is when women had to tap into their masculine energy and fight to care for their families. Unfortunately, our men are still being taken away here in America. The battle looks a little different, but the energy of our ancestors and the inner and outer battle remains the same. Each one of us holds the strength of our ancestors, we just have to remember. The fallacy lies in the overuse of masculine energy in women because of the notion that we have to be strong due to these past traumas of our ancestors. Our break away is to allow our men to harness masculine energy once again, while harnessing the warrior woman within us and allowing her to come out when necessary.