All the women in me are tired comes from a line by Nayyirah Waheed that has stayed with me for a long time. It speaks to a kind of tiredness that isn’t just physical, but layered and inherited, a collective exhaustion carried by women, especially Black women, who are expected to be strong, to hold things together, to keep moving even when their own needs are pushed aside. This performance piece sits within a larger body of work I began in 2025 called Someday We Overflow, which looks at both individual and shared feelings of being overwhelmed in the world we are living in now. I chose the word someday intentionally, as a way to suggest distance, like the breaking point is always somewhere ahead of us, even though in reality it is already happening. We are already overflowing, already tired, but we stay locked into the rhythm of life, work, care, survival. We keep going because stopping doesn’t feel like an option. In this work, the body becomes a place where all of this gathers, where the effort to contain and the desire to release exist at the same time. The performance is not about collapse, but about that moment of almost breaking, where strength and exhaustion sit side by side. It is about carrying too much, knowing it’s too much, and still continuing ,not because it is easy, but because we can’t help ourselves.