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The Policing of Women's Desire, Confidence and Expression

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In this bold and deeply honest episode of The Box & The Sky series, Keya McClain the Poet explores the emotional and societal policing of women’s desire, confidence, sensuality, and self-expression.

The Policing of Women’s Desire, Confidence & Expression dives into the contradictions women — especially Black women — often face when embracing their femininity, sexuality, confidence, beauty, boundaries, and personal freedom in a world that simultaneously desires, critiques, judges, and attempts to control them.

From respectability politics and inherited shame to double…

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