When therapists gaslight Black people into tranquility instead of validating our legitimate anxieties
Editor’s Note: May is Mental Health Awareness Month and National Masturbation Month. This is also the... more
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“Unless I had no awareness of myself or others at all, my Blackness would always be a thing even in the communes established by my community, no matter how insular they became.”
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‘Mixed-ish’ and the anti-Black myth of post-racial insulated societies
Perhaps due to my own intentional insulation inside of a cultish virtual world of angry Black radicals, last week I witnessed an overwhelmingly negative response on... more
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‘A Million Little Things’ powerfully reflects the truth of many Black folk’s mental health struggle
Editor’s Note: May is Mental Health Awareness Month and National Masturbation Month. This is also the month that we celebrate Mother’s Day. At BYP, we will be... more
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Mental Health Awareness Month shouldn’t be the only time I can talk openly about my mental health
It is crucial that we not only prioritize mental health conversations better, but also change the way that we discuss mental health so no one feels that they have to deal with mental illness alone.
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Queer Black folks talk about masturbation, confront shame, and affirm their right to self-pleasure
For Black folks, who have endured hundreds of years of dehumanizing anti-Black rhetoric and beliefs about the inherent sexual deviance of our race, the subject of masturbation and shame can be doubly complicated.
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I worry about how to care for my brother with autism and his mental health when my parents are gone
I won’t lie — I’m worried about what my life will look like when my parents can no longer care for Daniel. I love my brother but I still have dreams to fulfill.
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When therapists gaslight Black people into tranquility instead of validating our legitimate anxieties
Editor’s Note: May is Mental Health Awareness Month and National Masturbation Month. This is also the month that we celebrate Mother’s Day. At BYP, we will be... more
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Reflecting on GayL Jones’ ‘CoRregidora’ and its excavation of transgenerational traumas on the body
The novel is, first and foremost, about freedom. Freedom, not in the ways in which we understand reparation, but freeing the body from the transgenerational -- that which spans generations -- terror of historical atrocity.
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Morehouse’s new policy accepting trans men misses the point by clinging to the gender binary
By Ramon Johnson The Morehouse community has long had difficulties facilitating an inclusive campus... more
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Georgetown’s student vote on slave reparation fund signals a needed change in higher education
A unique action on the part of students, the significance of this vote creates social and political implications for higher education programs and policies that go far beyond Georgetown University.
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Black liberation requires making room for uncomfortable manifestations of mental illness
May is Mental Health Awareness Month and National Masturbation Month. This is also the month that we... more
The often overlooked link between dental health and mental health
the rest of our body, as well as our mind, especially for those of us locked in a constant battle with white supremacy and its violences.
The often overlooked link between dental health and mental health
the rest of our body, as well as our mind, especially for those of us locked in a constant battle with white supremacy and its violences.
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According to Vox, eight players from the Ole Miss men’s basketball program knelt during the national anthem in protest of a rally on campus in support of... more
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According to the Miami Herald, a 50-year-old man from Philadelphia who lives in the Florida Keys found himself on the fast track to a deportation to Jamaica, despite... more
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According to USA Today, an independent autopsy commissioned by the Bradford family shows that Emantic Bradford Jr. was shot from behind three times by police during the... more
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Border Patrol fires tear gas, chases asylum seekers and closes the border to keep them out of the US
According to Buzzfeed News, late Sunday evening, Border Patrol agents temporarily closed the San Ysidro Port of Entry, one of the most used border crossings in the... more
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The Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights (RFK) Foundation, led by Kerry Kennedy, started a month-long mission to bail out hundreds of women and juveniles at Rikers Island.... more
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‘Mixed-ish’ and the anti-Black myth of post-racial insulated societies
Perhaps due to my own intentional insulation inside of a cultish virtual world of angry Black radicals, last week I witnessed an overwhelmingly negative response on... more
‘Mixed-ish’ and the anti-Black myth of post-racial insulated societies
Perhaps due to my own intentional insulation inside of a cultish virtual world of angry Black radicals, last week I witnessed an overwhelmingly negative response on... more
‘Mixed-ish’ and the anti-Black myth of post-racial insulated societies
Perhaps due to my own intentional insulation inside of a cultish virtual world of angry Black radicals, last week I witnessed an overwhelmingly negative response on... more
‘Mixed-ish’ and the anti-Black myth of post-racial insulated societies
Perhaps due to my own intentional insulation inside of a cultish virtual world of angry Black radicals, last week I witnessed an overwhelmingly negative response on... more