The 92%: We are Storm Riders

First things first, lovely!
🎧 Go on ahead and click the podcast link ⬆️ right now to play the first minute of the new episode — it counts as a download and helps us grow! 😘

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I’m finally back and just in time for an incoming recession AND the start of The Cowboy Carter Tour! 🤠

This week’s episode of Hey, It’s Halicue 🌻 is about How Black Women Are Riding Out the coming economic and political stormfront, ⚡️🌪️ and I need y’all to press play right now — even if you can’t finish it just yet because that first click helps us rise on the charts and reach more Black Women the 92%.

We need all hands on deck as we prepare (NOT panic) to meet the coming challenges and shifts as y’all Stunt Queen-in-Chief continues to f up the money and the nation realizes that Dr. Angelou knew exactly what she was talking about when she told y’all to believe people when they tell you exactly who they are.

You know who the original storm riders are? Black women.

So many of us, in this wild, politically and economically chaotic moment, are already instinctively moving towards the eye of the storm — that quiet, centered place where the winds don’t reach us.

Because we’ve been here many, many times before.

We’ve navigated every kind of upheaval, betrayal, and violation and still managed to protect our joy, raise our children, care for our elders, and create beauty, art, and culture out of our pain and ability to thrive in an environment that was intentionally designed to be hostile to us. As one of my favorite new TikTok followers, Nicole, reminded me:

Now, listen… I’m deconstructing from the church, but that resonated deeply with me, not just because that was exactly what my grandma would say when thunderstorms blew in. But also because our sitting down and being still right now isn’t about doing nothing. It’s about listening. Observing. Tapping in.

This episode is about how Black women of the 92% are doing just that — holding the center, reclaiming our stories, and conserving resources and energy so that we emerge from this whirlwind with our peace of mind (and portfolios) intact.

If you’re tired, anxious, or need to be reminded that

1. this is just an extremely wack extended remix and repeat of 2016

2. We’ve weathered far worse than this and

3. our only way out is through the storm, then this one’s for you.🤗

🌪️ We’re not waiting for the storm to pass. Black Women of the 92% are riding it out together.

Oh — and send up a little prayer for me that Beyoncé adds a Bay Area leg to the Cowboy Carter tour. We deserve.

XO,
Halicue