2014 – Brooke Leigh Howard

March 7, 2014March 26, 2014

Back to the Glitz, but Always Glamorous

It was only a matter of time. I'm back in the game. As a performer, the process of pageant training has reminded me of the days of ongoing rehearsals, late nights, studying lines, molding myself into a different character, always trying to one-up the other actors, attempting to prove that you're prettier than the lead …

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December 31, 2013June 24, 2018

My 2014 Resolutions – Quirky, But True

With the New Year rolling in in less than 12 hours, I actually have a few resolutions that I would like to accomplish for 2014. Typically, I'm not the resolution kind of gal and always maintain a steady list of goals; however, I actually want to start off on the right foot and keep going …

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Until recent years, women were not “allowed” to receive intimate pleasure. If a woman did have the privilege of experiencing such enjoyment, she was thought to be going through fits or bouts of insanity because women weren’t supposed to enjoy pleasure. So, the origin of “hysteria” meant those “fits of pleasure” but in a negative connotation. Women even received medical surgeries to “cure” them of such antics. Later, people who were considered to be mentally unstable were thought to be “hysterics;” all originating from the same ideology.

Today, the restraints on women have been somewhat loosened, but women of color are still at the bottom of the totem poll in regards to society concerns — specifically black women. If women hundreds of years ago were considered to be hysterics and crazy just over simple enjoyments of life, then what does the popular mass consider black women who never receive justice or fair consideration in social, professional, or unethical environments? We can redefine their and our ideology of women, and, especially, black women.

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