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What We Carry: A Coming-of-Age Tale of Grief, Therapy, and Reckoning

by Christian M. Ivey “What We Carry” is a powerful coming-of-age story that follows Drew, a... more

by Christian Ivey

Intergenerational Trauma is Gendered

My daughter saves me from my anxieties with the embrace of her little arms

Choosing Play is Black radical parenting

Black daughters and genderqueer children need your protection too, not just your sons

For Black people in the face of all this death, sadness is the work

What might happen if we ignore our grief during quarantine?

How I use ancestor veneration to navigate my Mother’s Death

Reflecting on “The Photograph” and Black mother-daughter relationships

Black folks don’t need a nuclear family to be legitimate

Gameschooling is a critical tool that helps Black children learn

The quiet call of ghosts: Dusting my grandmother’s photo reminds me of who I am

‘Seeking for the Lost’ and the project of finding each other as a misplaced people

Older siblings pay an unfair cost in poor Black families

The challenges of relearning intimacy as a Black woman when your parents never showed affection

I worry about how to care for my brother with autism and his mental health when my parents are gone

Contending with the violent history surrounding Black wombs as I await fatherhood

Why my partner and I will use Womanism as the framework to parent our child

What I learned from studying my Black mother’s pedagogy of love

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