Hosting a workshop around issues muffled by a blanket of silence in our community felt daunting. But it was revelatory<\/p>\n
What brought us hope and joy in 2023? Writers share their stories<\/a><\/p>\n On a chilly Saturday in November, I found myself sitting in an auditorium at Birmingham City University, getting ready to talk to more than a hundred women I\u2019d never met about sex. \u201cSounds quite heavy,\u201d was my dad\u2019s response when I explained that I was heading back to my home town for an event called Black Women and Undoing Sexual Shame. And in all honesty, I did feel a little out of my depth.<\/p>\n The summit was a partnership between the university and Black Ballad, the digital magazine and membership community for Black women, and I was co-hosting a workshop with Dr Kadian Pow, a lecturer in sociology and Black studies.<\/p>\n Jendella Benson is a British-Nigerian author, editor and head of editorial at Black Ballad. Her debut novel is Hope & Glory<\/p>\n Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters<\/a> section, please click here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hosting a workshop around issues muffled by a blanket of silence in our community felt daunting. But it was revelatory What brought us hope and joy in 2023? Writers share their stories On a chilly Saturday in November, I found myself sitting in an auditorium at Birmingham City University, getting ready to talk to more … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}