ONCE UPON A time, I was the president of the so-called Build-a-Brother team, where I would attempt to use my Black girl magic to heal the pieces of broken men. For my troubles, I was left with wounds that were slow to heal and lessons I was even slower to learn. Still, I had the privilege of healing privately and later — when I was ready — I shared my scars and not open wounds.
As a writer, I pull from these lessons and have shared some ugly truths about how I eventually landed in a beautiful space. After a private heartbreak that only a few close to me witnessed, I loved myself back to life and continued my public career as a speaker and author.
Megan Thee Stallion, a megastar and household name, is going through something similar but healing much more publicly, while contending with higher stakes. In short, she’s modeling what it looks like to be radically human in public.
Recently, the Houston rapper shared news of her breakup with Dallas Mavericks guard Klay Thompson, insinuating that it’d ended because he cheated. “Holding you down through all your horrible mood swings and treatment towards me during your basketball season, now you don’t know if you can be ‘monogamous,’” Meg wrote in her Instagram story.
