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Calling Out Fake Outrage: The New Way to Seem Like You Care, But Really Don’t
I’ve been meaning to write this post for a while. I actually took the time to audio record my thoughts about this in order to remember all of the points I want to cover. What I want to talk about here is the need for Black people to be in a permanent state of “Hulk…
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The Blackness Spectrum
Disclaimer: This post is meant to be tongue in cheek, kind of. Over the years I have come to find that Blackness exists on a spectrum. The spectrum ranges from Conscious Black to New Black. Now to explain what exactly these two extremes are. First we have the Conscious Blacks. These individuals can be found…
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Loving your Blackness: Revolutionary, Life Affirming, and….A Catch 22?
Today I stumbled upon an article in The Guardian it brought to light something that is often overlooked in the discussions on both mental health, racism, misogynoir, and self-love. The article spoke about the devastating mental health effects of being a Black woman in a white supremacist society. Not just how we feel when racism is…
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