Nancey B. Price on Why She Doesn't Identify As a Strong Black Woman

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Nancey B. Price, collage artist, writer and performance story teller joined us in the virtual studio to chat it up with us about all things Strong Black Woman and why she doesn't live her life from that space. In today's episode, Nancey gets real about why she hates being called strong and how she's not rocking with the term Queen either. Trust! You don't want to miss this episode because Nancey is boldly and unashamedly sharing why she's throwing the Strong Black Woman Trope back at all the people constantly throwing it at her. Here are a few things that came up in our conversation: - How the terms "Strong Black Woman" and "Queen" removes our humanness - Generational differences and expectations as it relates to being called strong - The trauma of being a strong Black girl - The soft grind and the shifts needed to be able to grind in way that feels good - The Deconditioning, relearning, and redfining needed to live a sustainable life ABOUT NANCEY B. PRICE Nancey B. Price is a self-taught collage artist, writer and storyteller with an appreciation for all things Black, Southern and imaginative. In all of her creative pursuits, she seeks to build worlds in which Black people can exist freely in all their beauty and complexity. With collage as her visual medium, Nancey explores how it feels to center and exalt Blackness and womanhood from the fields of rural America to the stars in the night sky and everywhere in between. Her work has been featured in various publications, including O, the Oprah Magazine, Garden & Gun Magazine, and Black Joy x Reckon. She‘s also exhibited across the country, including Yale Divinity School, the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, and the Jepson Center at the Telfair Museums. Nancey uses words and performance to take her audience on a journey of selfhood, spirituality, and ancestry. As the executive producer and host of the podcast, Dreaming In Color, she highlights the importance of dreamtelling in the Black community by creating space for each of her guests to share a dream story and deconstruct its meaning in their waking lives. In her stories of fiction, Nancey invokes magical realism and southern gothic storytelling to build worlds and weave together lives inspired by the folklore of her hometown, Girard, GA. Nancey currently resides in Statesboro, GA and can be seen sharing her creative process on social media (@nanceybprice) and her website (nanceybprice.com). Connect with Nancey via her Online Home, the Dreaming in Color Podcast and on Instagram, and be sure to check out her catalog of artwork. LINKS YOU'LL BE GLAD YOU CLICKED ON Come gather and grow with us in the SOS Sista Circle Want to be a part of a community of sistas supporting sistas through the ebbs and flows of life? Consider being a part of the SOS Virtual Sista Circle where we gather monthly to chat it up about all the things that concern us, while holding each other accountable with love — accountable for how we see ourselves, treat ourselves, walk through the world, and how we allow others to treat us. Join us today at shadesofstrong.com. Cultivate a daily practice of nurturing yourself with Nurture Yourself Bingo Nurturing yourself does not have to be difficult, but it does need to be consistent, so why not make it fun. Nurture Yourself Bingo is divided into five categories – one category per card. Each category has twenty-four activities to support you in a daily practice of nurturing yourself. All you need to do to get started is print the cards, laminate them, and start nurturing yourself. Do one activity daily, marking a X in the squares as you go until you get bingo. Once you get bingo, do something to celebrate yourself. If you get bingo on more than one card at the same time, up the celebration. Alternatively, you can work on one card at a time and/or do more than one activity a day. It’s your practice, do what feels right for you.