Serayah’s Joey Bada$$ Breakup Exposes The Exhausting Double Standard Black Women Are Still Forced To Carry [Op-Ed]
Black women deserve the freedom to make their own relationship choices without pressure to explain themselves. The post Serayah’s Joey Bada$$ Breakup Exposes The Exhausting Double Standard Black Women Are Still Forced To Carry [Op-Ed] appeared first on MadameNoire.
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Serayah just did something a lot of women in the public eye know all too well: she sat down and wrote a full statement explaining why her engagement to Joey Bada$$ is over, then noted she’d only be addressing it this one time. Not because she owes anyone an explanation. Because apparently, that’s still the unspoken toll for being a woman whose life is public.
She closed it with a line already living in everybody’s Notes app screenshots: “This chapter didn’t end the way I prayed it would. But endings can also be beginnings.”
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