We Can Do Hard Things Becoming Full of Yourself | Austin Channing Brown
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Aug 26, 2025 Austin Channing Brown, a New York Times bestselling author and racial justice leader, discusses the transformative power of centering Black women's voices. She highlights the cost of seeking cultural belonging and stresses the importance of justice over mere fairness. The conversation delves into how embodying one's identity serves as resistance against white supremacy and reveals the profound insights that Black women contribute to the world. Through personal experiences, Austin emphasizes self-acceptance as a vital step toward empowerment and collective liberation.
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Selfhood As Justice
- Becoming full of yourself is inseparable from justice work and challenges the self-help genre that ignores systems.
- Austin frames embodiment and self-possession as acts of resistance against oppressive norms.
Centering Unlocks Deeper Learning
- Centering Black women in conversations yields deeper learning than centering white comfort.
- Austin argues diverse internal dialogue reveals knowledge that translating to white audiences misses.
Fired For Trying To Belong
- Austin recounts being fired from a mega church after she had emptied herself to fit their culture.
- She realized she became smaller by altering speech, appearance, and opinion to belong and ultimately lost herself.
