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The biggest aches come when Taylor has to be away from her two daughters, Rue, 6, and Junie, 10. From red carpets to courtside at basketball games, she keeps her mini-mes close. \u201cEverybody knows, I don\u2019t play about my babies,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n
The girls are getting older, and she wants them to socialize, so they go to school in person instead of at home, which makes it tricky for them to be with her 24\/7 while she\u2019s working. \u201cI do get separation anxiety and go into little depressions when I’m away from them,\u201d Taylor says, looking down, her voice growing sad. \u201cIt\u2019s one of the busiest, most successful years of my career, and I\u2019m trying to balance that with motherhood.\u201d<\/p>\n
Often, Taylor feels misread. \u201cI got strong features. I look very androgynous, and I think people get intimidated just by looking at me,\u201d she says. \u201cI don\u2019t get a lot of grace. They treat me like I’m tough when I’m really a princess. I am just<\/em> a girl.\u201d<\/p>\n This is a familiar reality for many Black women, who get cast as aggressive or unshakeable by a world that demands we stay vigilant to survive, yet still looks to us to save it at every turn. \u201cWe\u2019re Superwoman all the time. When do we ever get to take our cape off?\u201d Taylor asks. At the Golden Globes, a line from her speech reminded Black women and girls: \u201cOur softness is not a liability.\u201d<\/p>\n She compares herself to an egg; her exterior might look hard, but inside she\u2019s just yolk. \u201cMy muscle memory is love,\u201d she says with such sincerity it\u2019s as if she reached into her core and pulled the words out. \u201cIt does hurt when I see certain things on the internet [about herself] because I\u2019m like, \u2018Damn, I thought people would be happy.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The biggest aches come when Taylor has to be away from her two daughters, Rue, 6, and Junie, 10. From<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2802,2801,2800,2799],"class_list":["post-15315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-chairinterview","tag-directors","tag-taylor","tag-teyana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumeluxe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumeluxe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumeluxe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumeluxe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumeluxe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blumeluxe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumeluxe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumeluxe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumeluxe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumeluxe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}