Rejecting the Strong Black Woman Archetype Saved My Life

"I started to realize that the only person who could get me out of this endless cycle was myself."

by Rachael Vaughan Clemmons

Rachael Vaughan Clemmons is a writer currently based in Philadelphia. She hates it there and pretty much everywhere else, too. 

It’s hard to know what, exactly, was my breaking point. My real breaking point.