BLACK GIRL JOY

I Pledge Allegiance to Black Girl Joy... is a movement.

#IPledgeAllegianceToBlackGirlJoy #BlackGirlJoy

Across the globe, trauma has become mainstream — war, oppression, exploitation, erasure. But today, I choose to center Black girls and Black women, because at every intersection of injustice, it is we who carry the heaviest weight.

Who suffers most when the world is at war?

Who feels the first and fiercest blow when democracy crumbles?

Who bears the scars of colonial greed, racial capitalism, and patriarchal violence?

Black, Indigenous, and ethnic women.

Women of color.

Melanated women across the globe.

When Congo bleeds, when Sudan cries, when Tigray mourns, when Palestine resists — we know who is left to hold families, communities, entire nations together, even in silence.

Adriana Smith.

92% of Black women facing 300,000 job losses.

Daily headlines that never make it past hashtags.

We know trauma. Intimately. Historically. Systemically. Globally.

But today, I ask:

Can we shift the lens?

Can we dare to focus — not in denial of our pain — but in celebration of our power?

What does Black Girl Joy look like?

What does it feel like?

Can you take a few minutes to make a video about it?

Will you flood your feed, your circle, your community with performances, practices, art, fun, and presence — expressions of Black Girl Joy?

Joy is not a distraction.

Joy is resistance.

Joy is ancestral. Revolutionary. Necessary.

I believe in our power to recreate the reality we want.

So, what does Black Girl Joy mean to you?

And how will you honor it — in your life, in your art, in your community?

I pledge allegiance to Black Girl Joy.

Will you? Tag #IPledgeAllegianceToBlackGirlJoy #BlackGirlJoy #AdaTheCreator along on your contributions to the movement.