May 22, 2026

Ain't I a woman?

Sojourner Truth delivered this challenge to a crowd that had largely dismissed her right to speak. She had been enslaved for nearly forty years, had walked away from her enslaver in 1826 carrying her infant daughter, and had spent the following decades preaching, organizing, and demanding to be seen as fully human. She asked that question not for herself alone but to expose a lie the whole room was living by. It speaks to purpose because it shows that defining your own worth, even when the world refuses to, is itself an act of meaning-making.