Sistas Rebuilding Sisterhood: Love Without Performance (April 2026)

Love Without Performance is a 90-minute virtual conversation within the Sistas Rebuilding Sisterhood series, hosted by Conversations in Color and facilitated by Lana Reid.

From an early age, many Black women are conditioned to prove their worth through caretaking, emotional availability, loyalty, and resilience. While these behaviors are often praised as strength, they can quietly shape friendships into spaces where performance replaces authenticity and love feels conditional rather than mutual.

This April 2026 conversation invites intergenerational Black women to reflect on how performance shows up in sisterhood — and what becomes possible when it no longer does.

Together, participants will explore:

• Emotional labor and people-pleasing in friendships between women

• How romantic and cultural conditioning influences how we show up for each other

• The fear of being perceived as “difficult,” “selfish,” or “unloving”

• When support becomes obligation rather than choice

• What honest, reciprocal sisterhood can look like without constant proving

Rather than assigning blame, this conversation centers awareness, gentleness, and recalibration — allowing space to name patterns that no longer serve us while preserving connection and care.

This session is part of Sistas Rebuilding Sisterhood, a monthly virtual gathering designed to foster clarity, healing, and meaningful connection among intergenerational Black women.

Facilitated by Lana Reid, founder of Conversations in Color and creator and host of The Male Perspective, this conversation creates space to examine how love, belonging, and authenticity can coexist without performance.