Creativity—a radical new political strategy for Black women 🎨✨
I’m so happy to release this episode about the political power of Black women’s creativity because I’ve received so many downloads lately about just how crucial this moment is. Black women’s art, joy, and creative expression have always been political acts.
I have what I can only describe as a deep knowing that what we create—individually and collectively—over these next four years will be historic. Our artistry won’t be solely focused on the beauty trends or unique forms of self-expression that we constantly innovate. This artistic era will be about Black Women’s sovereignty, about reclaiming the space to dream, imagine, and build on our terms.
This may sound odd, considering our plan of centering our rest first, but I plan to explore and rediscover the creativity of domesticity. Since girlhood (y’all remember that I am the eldest daughter. First daughter of the first daughter, in fact.) I’ve always seen the domestic arts as drudgery—especially after COVID, when we were all confined to the house and every household chore felt like an endless, joyless cycle. But recently, I’ve been reminded that home life, when approached with intention, can be an art form.
Seeing Black women like the Duchess of Sussex create beautiful, warm, and luxurious lifestyle content—with ease and on her terms, simply because she loves it—has been so affirming. Meghan refuses to be boxed into the vulgar reality-show spectacle that the dominant culture expects from Black women, and I love that for her and us. Watching her step into this creative space, but doing it with grace, warmth, and that unmistakable Leo ease, has been a revelation. And to be honest, her confection of a lifestyle show has been a lovely distraction from the boiling lava flow of hot garbage emanating from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and corporate media.
I dedicated this episode to the artist in every Black woman who has been silenced, discouraged, and forced to work instead of create. I mourn the loss of Black Women artists we could have had—the writers, the painters, the filmmakers, the designers—if society weren’t so addicted to Black women’s physical and emotional labor. But I also hold deep hope and faith that the next four years will be a time of artistic renaissance for us.
And because I don’t just want to talk about it, I’m creating something for us. The Creativity in Bloom Challenge launches this Monday—a sweet, supportive space for us to explore, dreamscape, and finally give birth to the creative visions that have been waiting inside us. This isn’t just a challenge; it’s a practice, a ritual, a reclaiming. Like the podcast, it exists to remind us to choose ourselves over and over again. To create not as an afterthought, but as a pillar of our political strategy—because when Black women create, we shift culture, we shift economies, we shift history.
This creative emphasis goes hand in hand with the economic boycotts and financial strategy of the 92%. The more we pour into our own artistry, the more selective, intentional, and strategic we become with where our money, time, and energy go. We are no longer asking for a seat at a table built for our exclusion—we are building entirely new art projects and creative spaces that honor, sustain, and nourish our visions.
Let’s support each other, pour into each other, and lift up Black women’s creativity like our future depends on it—because it does. May this be the era where we, Black Women of the 92 Percent, prioritize our artistry, our self-expression, and our collective brilliance.
XO, Halicue 💫✨
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