Challenge 2018 - Jackie Hill Perry - "What is a Woman?"

Watch Jackie Hill Perry perform "What is a Woman?" from Challenge 2018.
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The other day, a young lady brown as the melanin in my daughter's eyes, said behind a mic that she hated being a woman.
She wanted to know what it meant to be one.
And I have often wondered the same.
Looked around for the teaching of such to tell me of myself.
We all learn to be by imitation or indoctrination.
Mama and media can't help but train.
Tutor us into carbon copies of themselves so then knowing who we are and what we should be is really understanding whose costumes we wear on most days.
Whose skeletons we switch with when Adam took his nap.
I was told a woman cannot truly be herself, that is, if herself is not light enough, dark enough or if her hair is not Repunzel replica or if it be too underground railroad for those cotton acting men to stomach.
I was told that my body is neither belonging of me nor its beauty innate but that I am not gorgeous unless told by another woman's son to be so.
When did the mouth of men in whose image women were not made in begin to damage us so silently?
Maybe it was when we began believing the voices that have no Deity in it.
I was told a woman should not submit, should not be meek, that that type of behavior was only for women who treated their voice like a secret.
I was told not to be a secret but a siren.
To be as machete as I can and honor my opinions at the expense of respect.
While some men may believe themselves to have liberty over a woman's body has taught how to destroy only his own depravity could predict. We have equally learned how to tear and rip and undo dignity with a mear sentence or squint, it's called strong by society.
And tell us that's what a backbone looks like.
But beautiful is the spine that remembers where it came from.
That let's it's knowing of self not be determined by every wind of doctrine n dust but God Himself.
We must unlearn the deep misunderstandings that compose themselves as empowerment, as freedom.
Liberation has never come by way of unbelief.
Eve did not attain life by finding beauty in lies, but only a naked body and a husband that forgot her first name.
We women must be smarter, must be wiser, must be bent on loving truth no matter how contradicting it is to a dying culture.
I tell you a woman is no fool unless she chooses to be.
If you asked me - what is a woman?
I would tell you she is a bone made alive, with distinctions that set her apart as does the difference between a firefly and a new poem.
A woman is not a man.
Her calling is not a synomyn of inferiority.
Her distinctions are not the child of patriarchy - they come from a creative God.
Did you see His fingerprints in your hips?
The whistling shadow of His mind when your body become home to another name - they called you mommy where all the gladness you forgot could exist.
A woman submits to her God, her husband, her church.
She is no weak-willed or brittle backed woman but only as strong as humility and faith may identify her to be.
They say submission sounds like serving.
They say that it sounds like something to rebel against.
I say ain't it funny how being a servant is repulsive to everyone but God and we wonder why we can't recognize His face.
If you asked me - what is a woman?
I would tell you that she is a sister to all.
Even those whose blood is not of the same roots but who is still as kin as her Mama's first born and she treats these sisters like a wintered kilt.
Making sure her mouth does not unstitch that which was made to keep cold hearts warm.
We are made up of nurture and everything comfortable and that is why we feel so deep, why we cry so sudden because the emotions that make us women don't make us unstable but turn us refuge to the chaos where our ribs once sat.
We are necessary and nuanced at best.
But a woman should be nothing more or less than what God made her to be.
Anything that defines our being that does not shimmer and sing of Christ and His wisdom is a definition destined for flames.
If you asked me - what is a woman?
I would simply tell you, ask the God who made her.

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God bless you!

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This is amazing❤❤❤🎉

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Liberation never came by unbelief.

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Where can I find the printed words to this amazing spoken word art?

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😯😯😯 wow she is powerful

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Don’t stop using your beautiful gift! I pray continued boldness! Thank you!!

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this was simply incredible "...necessary and nuanced at best..."
This was extremely well spoken wow I am speechless
Jackie Hill Perry and the algorithm gods, thank you for your video, thank you

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She's amazing

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👏👏👏👏👏🙌🙌🙌

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Arg man, yes woman!! 👏🏽🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥

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Beautiful. 🔥

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Thanks for watching.

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Woow

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Does anyone else’s conscience start to ring at this? I start to think about 1 Timothy 2. Don’t know the context here or who she’s preaching to, but something maybe doesn’t sit right with me