Reclaiming Our Power: Black Women & Girls as Architects of a New Future

It’s time we write the rules. We blueprint our way to a more lucrative future that supports us. It’s time. From the very ground up. Rather than putting a plug in leaky plumbing—which we see as this current system—we must recognize that these laws “governing” the current system are not serving us. What’s stopping us from writing laws that support us and the changes we require? Changes that better support the collective?

Hear me out. You may be thinking—what? How? We start by inking our own ideas and solutions. Society has made a big mistake by keeping Black women and girls in our current position. It has given us the opportunity to see the bigger picture, to find and solve problems from a unique perspective. We ARE the answers to healing the world, the collective.

I remember when I used to ask myself, why? The collective point of view of Black women and girls is solely based on myth. There’s no way you suppress an entire group of women and girls without there being something there. We are the most intelligent, the most creative, and no other women and girls have occupied this space. It’s almost like the world hopes and prays we don’t see or recognize our own power—that we continue to commit to this system and “support it.” That the world aims to wedge its labor on the backs of Black women and girls. Keeping us here has essentially allowed many Black women and girls to rise and still overcome.

But it’s not enough. Not enough Black women and girls have been able to overcome, and in my opinion, that is most often due to the system itself—trying to operate within a structure that causes harm to everyone. It’s time to usher in new systems, new perspectives, a new world. It’s our rising, our birthright, and the world has hoped we would remain “okay” with the crumbs they’ve given us—but no more.

We are meant to be thriving. The entire system is currently upside down, and that’s why it’s not working—literally, for anyone. Look at who the world turns to for support when things no longer go their way. Black women. Ask yourself WHY. Why does everyone run to Black women to fix things? The one group the world has mostly disrespected and counted out?

We are creators. And it is us—stepping into our own individual power, our genius, and self-actualization, combined with collaborative support—that will change the world.

We can write new laws, new worlds, new beginnings. So when I say we can rewrite and change systems—it can be done. We no longer need permission from a government that neither recognizes nor considers us in the writing of its laws and “declarations.”

The range of leadership, technology, and creativity among us—the essence of truth and innovation—it resides within us. It always has. The creativity, the ability to make something out of nothing, the ability to transform the world as trailblazers into something that first centers and supports ourselves—that is key. We’ve proven we can help others. It’s time we center and help ourselves first. THAT is the essential key we’ve been missing all along.

The rest of the world must RESPECT Black women and girls. Rather than being slaves to the system and constantly in a “fight” for the things we are owed, we must create structures that not only protect us but also require the world to consult us & pay us for our services, businesses, creativity, and solutions.

The world in 2025 has given Black women and girls an opportunity to usher in change like never before. A change that’s long overdue. The world has benefited off the backs of Black women and girls—including Black men. It’s time for this shift to create a better world, beginning with us.

We’ve done harder things. Our ancestors have done harder things. It’s time we strategically begin with ourselves—Black women and girls. I believe that’s been the key: rather than attempting to include others, we must start with ourselves first.