trauma

What do you do when childhood trauma makes you close off from the care you need to heal it?

The trans child in me still needs to feel wanted

Reclaiming memory as a Black father and son in the face of cultural and racial traumas

The Black body remembers our traumas even when we try to forget

Comic: More joy, less trauma please

Trauma doesn’t turn you into a bad person

Reminders and affirmations to help you through quarantine

Watchmen, an homage to Black memory (loss)

Childhood trauma and pornographic visions of the Black phallus made me ashamed of masturbation

Mental Health Awareness Month shouldn’t be the only time I can talk openly about my mental health

When therapists gaslight Black people into tranquility instead of validating our legitimate anxieties

Intergenerational trauma is gendered, and other life lessons from my Black mother & sister

How learning to work with my Ancestors created a relationship of reciprocity and parental support

Jordan Peele’s ‘Us’ contends with unresolved trauma, and a host of other unsettling things

Comic: No, you did not turn out “just fine”

What Future’s fear of admitting his sobriety says about our unhealthy expectation for Black pain

Interview: Kiese Laymon’s ‘Heavy’ reminds us that Blackness can be abundant in a world trying to make us disappear

British trans performance artist takes trauma from burger assault and turns it into a call to action with ‘Burgerz’

To deal with intergenerational Black trauma, we must care for our elders

Hulu documentary ‘Minding the Gap’ powerfully explores the effect of toxic masculinity on boys

New study shows childhood trauma’s wide intergenerational impact

Revisiting ‘Rated R’ and Rihanna’s narrative of a Black woman’s experience with trauma

How do you mourn an abuser?: Rapper XXXtentacion killed outside motorcycle dealership in Florida

Learning when to cut off toxic marginalized people is imperative to Black mental health

I’m not bipolar, I’m just traumatized: What I learned about Black womanhood from my misdiagnosis

In an anti-Black capitalist society, the guilt of Black “success” is almost unavoidable

For Black people who avoid mental health treatment for reasons other than our “culture” or fear of malpractice

University of Chicago adult trauma center to open on city’s South Side in May 2018

Study: stop-and-frisk linked to trauma in black men

Miracle: 2-year-old shot in head during drive-by expected to make a full recovery

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