How Being A Dog Mom Is Offering Black Women An Alternative Motherhood

Essence Magazine:

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The realization that I wanted to be a mother—and that being a Black mother to a Black child in this world.

I don’t want to be tasked with teaching another human being, let alone an innocent child, how to make peace with being mistreated and abused. I don’t want to be tasked with teaching a child how to protect their sanity when I quite

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