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1. The Myth of the Strong
Black Woman
By: Felicia Gilpin-Macfoy

5. I’m Super Woman… I Got This!!!
• And that is what the enduring meme of
the “strong black woman” obscures: It
ultimately flattens black women’s
humanity, making it harder for others to
see us as complex beings. Worse, the
myth of our extraordinary strength
makes it difficult for us to see ourselves.

6. Maybe you’re being too
stubborn. Maybe you’re not
saying you’re sorry. You
have to take good care of
him, too. You have to give
love to get love.” Maybe
we’re being too damned
strong for our own good.
The consensus seems to be
that black women are too
tough to love or be loved

7. FACTS!!!
• Black women have a rate of depression 50% higher than that of a
white woman
• Studies show that African American women “ believed that an
individual develops depression due to having a weak mind, poor
health, a troubled spirit, and lack of self love

8. “The Strong Black Woman Is Dead”
On August 15, 1999, at 11:55 p.m.,
while struggling with the reality
of being a human instead of a myth,
the strong black woman passed away.
Medical sources say she died of natural causes,
but those who knew her know she died
from being silent when she should have been screaming,
milling when she should have been raging,
from being sick and not wanting anyone to know
because her pain might inconvenience them.
She died from an overdose
of other people clinging to her
when she didn’t even have energy for herself.
- Laini Mataka’s

9. References
• Precious Mettle: The myth of the strong black woman | Bitch Media.
(n.d.). Retrieved December 02, 2016, from
https://bitchmedia.org/article/precious-mettle-myth-strong-black-
woman