Black Women In America

“Procrastination is key” said no one, ever. That is why I had a bout of anxiety when I waited to write this essay, especially when I had one eye on my college applications, and the other on approaching deadlines. Scary, I know. However, I had a reason for waiting, and it was a good one.
A couple weeks ago, I sat in my Disease and Society class waiting for my teacher to inform us of our last big assignment of the year. We had been working on our Passion Projects for the past semester - an assignment in which my classmates and I took every Friday to research a topic of personal interest to us. The wait was finally over when Mr. Kite announced that we would be hosting our own TedTalks within the school. I was both nervous and excited at the same time. Excited because I was …show more content…
Our experiences in both school and work often serve to alienate us from people of other genders and races as opposed to being a basis for finding acceptance and unity. As a result of this, we create our own businesses and safe spaces to celebrate our own accomplishments and talk about our own experiences; hence the surge in private ownership and entrepreneurship amongst black females in America. Although this is a positive for the community, the lack of black women in the STEM field remains a vast problem, especially for girls like me who wish to pursue a career in that field. It is my duty as a black girl in STEM to uplift and encourage other black girls with similar interests to continue on in with their aspirations, in spite of resistance, as I will do. It is my duty to demystify the picturesque image of intelligent black women in science and to assure my peers that the intelligence we associate with white masculinity is something that we, too, possess. I will remind myself and others that black girls and women are unapologetically gifted and capable of achieving astounding feats in this