I wasn’t even born when Janet Jackson released “The Pleasure Principle” on her 1986 album Control. Forty years later, those same two words have become the closest thing I have to a philosophy of life. Indulge me, please.Black women have mastered survival. Our history has all but demanded it. We have learned how to stretch a dollar, navigate instability, and keep moving even when the ground beneath us shifts. And over the past few years, we’ve be…
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