Hi everyone, I want to share an important update. After spending some time with the Skool platform, it’s clear that it’s not serving our community in the way I intended. Engagement here has been minimal, and that tells me we need to make some changes. Because of that, I’ve decided we’ll be reformatting our Skool format a little. This isn’t about anyone doing something wrong, it’s about choosing an environment that actually works. I’ll be sharing next steps and where we’re headed very soon, so please keep an eye out for that update. Thank you for being part of this community, and I appreciate your patience as we make this shift. More to come shortly. — Dr. Dorothy

As a Black woman and founder of Her Philosophical Mind™, I am restoring what was always true but rarely named: The intellectual life of Black women does not require a gatekeeper. It requires a forum. This space is deliberately structured so the mind can move without constraint, without apology, and without needing to justify its own elevation. This space treats Black women’s thought as inherently expansive, capable of engaging metaphysics, phenomenology, epistemology, cosmology, and consciousness studies. all without a preface, a disclaimer, or a contextual justification. It is a space where the intellect is understood as generative rather than reactive; where the thinker is free to construct, dismantle, question, and redesign the very frameworks through which reality is interpreted.

In our community, we’re not here to dance around the truth, we’re here to think. And one thing I’ve noticed over and over again, both online and in person, is that many women have an uneasy relationship with intellectual depth. Not because we lack brilliance, but because most of us were never taught to enjoy the part of thinking that stretches us. We were raised to manage emotions, maintain harmony, and read the room. But we were not raised to sit inside conceptual tension, explore the unknown, or hold a question long enough for it to teach us something. Depth often feels “too much,” not because it is, but because we were shaped to avoid the discomfort that comes with it. In this space, we’re doing something different. We’re reclaiming depth as ours. Her Philosophical Mind™ exists so we can practice thinking in a way that isn’t defensive, rushed, or influenced by the need to be agreeable. This is where you get to ask big questions, entertain ideas you’ve never considered, and build the intellectual muscle most women were never given space to develop. So here’s our prompt for the week: What is one idea, question, or concept that feels “too deep” for most conversations, but not too deep for this community? Post it. Share it. Let’s explore it together. This is the work. This is the gym. This is depth—with women who are ready for it.

What "big idea" (in philosophy, consciousness, metaphysics, science, or art) are you most passionate about, but have rarely had the right forum to explore? Drop your thoughts below! Let's see the universe of ideas in this group.

Her Philosophical Mind™ is a gathering space for women who are ready to move beyond inherited frameworks and engage the big questions, consciousness, reality, existence, and meaning, through our own lived intelligence.