Your Favorite Black Feminist Is An Entrepreneur
For the Worldbuilders Ep. 074
Dear Worldbuilder,
Our favorite black feminist was most likely an entrepreneur because for many of our ancestors, black feminist entrepreneurship was simply a synonym for “the practice of surviving with our dignity and integrity intact”.
Many of us have heard the stories if we listened closely, the auntie, uncles and cousins who spun up hair salons, barbershops, daycares, restaurants and classrooms inside living rooms, kitchens, gardens and basements.
Businesses that experimented with mutual aid and refused to replicate the carceral choreographies they might have witnessed or experienced in their neighborhoods or at their jobs. Businesses run by folks who might not have called themselves black feminists but would eventually become the inspiration for the political framework.
These stories are not new, disability and complex trauma sometimes renders us unable or unwilling to hold “traditional jobs”. Entrepreneurship and creative lives of refusal aren't always born out of courage, sometimes they're born out of necessity and needs capitalism just can't hold.
What creative strategies can black feminism teach us about surviving systems designed to fail us?
This is the question we explore in today’s episode. Tune into the 74th episode on the podcast For the Worldbuilders via Spotify or Apple Podcast to explore this question with us.
If you’re curious about the infinite possibilities inside creative entrepreneurship aligned with your values and how you might root your offer in a black feminist politic then I want to invite you to register for the free Worldbuilding Workshop Series to learn more about Seeda School’s upcoming creative retreat.
Seeda School hosts a 9-week retreat where you will learn how to develop and launch an income generating creative offer through 3 major milestones:
Decide On An Offer Inspired by Your Zone of Desire
Create a Framework for the Journey You Will Take Your Client, Customer, Reader, Audience, Student, Participant, On
Create A Sales System and Invite the People
Register for our upcoming Worldbuilding Workshop Series to learn more about the retreat and receive the Spring 2025 Syllabus outlining all the upcoming Seeda School programming in your registration confirmation email!
This is the word I was seeking. Thank you for speaking to the necessity and ancestral nature of systems outside the mechanism that put the cooperative in motion. Detachment is too close these days