The Freedom Of Choosing Yourself
What if the life you’ve been told to want isn’t the only beautiful life available to you?
This week on For Mannerless Women, Adelle sits down with Zimbabwean musician, mbira player, published poet and artist Hope Masike for a conversation about reclaiming freedom, questioning the timelines women inherit, and creating a life that feels deeply aligned. Together they explore what colonization took from African women beyond land, why knowing your body is an act of reclamation, the joy of choosing yourself instead of waiting to be chosen, and how creativity can become both healing and resistance.
In this episode, we unpack:
- Why women are taught to wait to be chosen instead of learning how to choose.
- The pressure to marry, have children and “keep up” with society’s timeline.
- How to stop feeling like you’re behind in life.
- Reclaiming our bodies after generations of silence and shame.
- What colonization stole from African women beyond land.
- Why creativity can become one of our greatest healing tools.
- The freedom that comes from building a life on your own terms.
- Why every woman deserves to know that her life has purpose beyond societal expectations.
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Listen to Hope’s latest single Hewoi: https://youtu.be/CYYiqvGlrW4?si=nlN9bEuNCAAFdIZz
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Thank you for listening. If this conversation resonated with you, share it with the mannerless or almost mannerless women in your life. You never know who needs this reminder that there is more than one way to live a beautiful life.