After several other treatments instead, including an ultrasound on her legs, doctors finally relented and the CT scan revealed blood clots in her lungs. She was finally given blood thinners to treat what she'd been saying all along.
"We have to be careful with that. Very careful with that term," Henson said, and a big part of why is because of this misunderstanding of what it means to be strong. It's not physical strength or a suppression of emotions or fearlessness. "Strength is in being vulnerable, and that’s what I want my people to understand," she said."The strength is in being vulnerable and being honest with yourself and saying, you know what, I'm scared right now. Or, I honestly don't know what to do right now."
Maybe if we fix how we define strength and weakness in people, it can stop being a potentially damaging, diminishing or even life-threatening descriptor for Black women.
TooFab Aren't you missing a, NOT, in the headline? Classic spellcheck on the rampage. She takes a stand against by being for it from leaving out a word?
TooFab Who's doing the killing
TooFab Lol Americans. Carribean people don’t act like that !!!! Annoying already
TooFab Do all these sensitive morons actually believe the shit they are peddling. They should be shit salesman because they are full of it
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TooFab The media has too long portrayed Black women as obsolete. It doesn’t help when our heroes chose white women over black. When an athlete gets married... 90% of the time there’s a white woman beside him. He thinks it’s love. She knows it’s love of money. Shameful!!!
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