17 LIFE LESSONS FROM A BLACK DYKE
Book Details
Author(s)Pennie Shamere Parker
Publisherwww.ParkersPublishing.com
ISBN / ASINB01H64M7CG
ISBN-13978B01H64M7C0
MarketplaceIndia 🇮🇳
Description
Life can be f*cking hard. I know it. You know it. But the beautiful part about life is that it can either be hard-beautiful or just horribly-hard. There is no perfect life. We are all imperfect people trying to navigate through this with the occasional help from Google, group chats and targeted infomercials. You can strategize everything you want to accomplish from point A to point Z but somewhere between G and L unplanned sh*t happens. And that’s ok!
In this book I will illustrate how to find that silver lining needed to overcome obstacles and continue on your path to becoming the BEST YOU.
One of the main things people like to reference before taking advice is credentials. What makes me qualified to address certain topics? Why should you accept my words as truth over the next person? Well, for starters, I never speak on anything that I haven’t personally experienced or thoroughly researched. Everything you read in this book is a direct derivative of raw life experience coupled with checkable facts. Plus, I promise not to bore you.
Some may wonder, why did I use the word Dyke? Of all the words I could have used to describe myself, why Dyke? Especially when it is commonly used to degrade the masculine spectrum of the lesbian community. Simply put, a word can only hold as much power as you allow it to hold. Dyke is a descriptive label that differentiates me from the more feminine lesbian. It expresses the quiet power associated with my form of dress. When you use the word, Dyke, there is an unmistakable acknowledgement of a presence and the effect that it has on your reality. To say the word, Dyke, you are admitting that you are aware of a sexual orientation, gender, pose and possible temperament all in one. So why should it be offensive?
Dyke does not imply that I want to be a man nor does it suggest that I am in competition with one. Dyke simply says that I am a woman who enjoys intimate relationships with other women while being able to handle functions of life that straight women typically rely upon men to handle. That’s it!
I am still human.
I am still a woman.
I will always be Black.
I am a Dyke.
Now that we have all of that out of the way, allow me to school you on this thing we call life.
In this book I will illustrate how to find that silver lining needed to overcome obstacles and continue on your path to becoming the BEST YOU.
One of the main things people like to reference before taking advice is credentials. What makes me qualified to address certain topics? Why should you accept my words as truth over the next person? Well, for starters, I never speak on anything that I haven’t personally experienced or thoroughly researched. Everything you read in this book is a direct derivative of raw life experience coupled with checkable facts. Plus, I promise not to bore you.
Some may wonder, why did I use the word Dyke? Of all the words I could have used to describe myself, why Dyke? Especially when it is commonly used to degrade the masculine spectrum of the lesbian community. Simply put, a word can only hold as much power as you allow it to hold. Dyke is a descriptive label that differentiates me from the more feminine lesbian. It expresses the quiet power associated with my form of dress. When you use the word, Dyke, there is an unmistakable acknowledgement of a presence and the effect that it has on your reality. To say the word, Dyke, you are admitting that you are aware of a sexual orientation, gender, pose and possible temperament all in one. So why should it be offensive?
Dyke does not imply that I want to be a man nor does it suggest that I am in competition with one. Dyke simply says that I am a woman who enjoys intimate relationships with other women while being able to handle functions of life that straight women typically rely upon men to handle. That’s it!
I am still human.
I am still a woman.
I will always be Black.
I am a Dyke.
Now that we have all of that out of the way, allow me to school you on this thing we call life.
