10/17/2025
Tenderheaded
Just tenderheaded enough to feel everything — and wise enough to turn it into a beautiful reckoning.
Earlier this week, Rick and I attended the Atlanta book signing for Michaela angela Davis’ new memoir, tenderheaded — where I was deeply reminded of my own ancestral truth, cultural brilliance, and the feminine power I grew up witnessing and becoming.
tenderheaded is a ribbon-wrapped remembrance. A reclaiming of all the ways Black girls have had to learn to sit still, be tender, and still become.
With her signature elegance and fierce cultural intelligence, Michaela invites us to revisit the textures of our identity — the parts pressed, braided, combed, and coded into us. It’s a love letter to our childhood selves… and a calling in for our current becoming.
Michaela doesn’t just write about hair. She writes about inheritance, softness, resistance—and the many ways we’ve always made ourselves beautiful, even when the world refused to see it.
To Michaela:
Thank you for holding our stories with such reverence.
Your work is legacy work.
Your voice is frequency.
