Black Women and Sisterhood: Why We Keep Choosing Each Other Even When the World Tells Us Not To
- Lillie M Jones
- 1 day ago
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By: Naomi K. Bonman
They need us to compete.
That's why they keep building the competition.
It's not an accident that Black women are constantly placed in rooms with limited seats, told the resources are scarce, and left to figure out who deserves to stay. Scarcity isn't a condition — it's a strategy. And when women believe there's only room for one, they stop protecting each other and start protecting their position, but here's what keeps being proven, over and over again: Black women, given the choice, tend to choose each other anyway.
We show up for each other in ways that don't get celebrated enough. We pass along job leads. We write the recommendations. We make the introductions. We sit in the front rows of each other's events. We show up in the comments, in the group chats, in the audience — not because we were told to, but because we know something the industry refuses to acknowledge: another woman's rise does not require our fall.
Full-Figured Flings is built on that truth.
When Amber and Lauren realize they've been manipulated into seeing each other as rivals, they don't double down on the competition. They dismantle it. Their walk together is a love letter to Black sisterhood — imperfect, hard-won, and completely defiant.
That's the movie. But it's also just... the reality of who we are when we're not being used against each other.
Come see it with your sister, your best friend, your line sisters, your whole squad.
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This was a great post! Black woman are for each other despite what the media and the world wants us to think.