Paulna Valbrun, Author at midnight & indigo https://www.midnightandindigo.com/author/paulna-valbrun/ A Home for Black Women Writers Sun, 05 Jul 2020 22:17:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://i0.wp.com/www.midnightandindigo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/unnamed-file.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Paulna Valbrun, Author at midnight & indigo https://www.midnightandindigo.com/author/paulna-valbrun/ 32 32 153713158 Afrodite https://www.midnightandindigo.com/afrodite/ Tue, 30 Jun 2020 04:00:25 +0000 https://www.midnightandindigo.com/?p=77043 “African-American girls always score higher than their white peers when it comes to self-esteem,” one of my High School teachers lectured. I struggle to remember why broaching this subject was germane to our class discussion, since this statement was made by my French teacher. “Way higher,” she added, standing in front of the projector with French verb conjugations. She seemed pretty perturbed by this, and added that this “needed to change.” White people needed to figure out what Black families were doing, so their girls could have the same high levels of self-love and self-esteem. We were all fifteen at

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