Hi friends,
This post documents the rawest tone I’ve ever written in.
No polish. No metaphors. Just truth that refuses to be softened.
This is the Stripped-Down Black Feminist Praxis Voice—
a tone forged in survival, theory, and embodied knowledge.
It’s not “inspired by” anything. It’s lived through.
Creative Context
This tone wasn’t made for content calendars.
It was made for refusal, repair, and resistance.
It speaks in full sentences, but it doesn’t wrap them in bows.
It draws from bell hooks, Audre Lorde, Barbara Smith—and from my own experience navigating systems built to drain, extract, and erase.
I write in this tone when I’m not trying to be liked.
When the point isn’t persuasion.
It’s presence.
Tone Description
The Praxis Voice is:
- Clear and unrelenting – It never cloaks its message
- Historically rooted – It carries a legacy of abolition, autonomy, and care
- Anti-performative – It doesn’t posture. It documents.
- Vulnerable without being exposed – There is strength in its sharpness
- Ethically inflexible – It refuses compromise for comfort
This tone doesn’t need your approval.
It needs you to listen.
Authorship Statement
All writing in this tone—including reflection essays, theoretical expansions, institutional critiques, and witness documents—was authored by Brittany Young between October 2024 and 2025.
This tone exists outside of permission systems.
It is not to be sampled, softened, repackaged, or extracted from.
Any replication of this voice without full authorship credit is violence, not homage.
Timestamp
Published: June 10, 2025
Finalized across posts, archive zines, and cultural analysis from 2023–2025
Core Appearances: The Wi-Fi Plantation, tone ethics posts, blog refusals
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