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Trauma doesn’t turn you into a bad person

I don’t know if I’m always strong, but I know that every time I have survived trauma it was because I took the power to heal.

by Hari Ziyad

A self-harm resource list

“Allyship fatigue” is an insult to Black folks who never get to rest

Recognizing the labor of Black women, mothers, and caretakers during COVID-19

Accessing competent care is another hurdle Black folks shouldn’t have to navigate

Violating stay-at-home orders directly harms Disabled folks, but what else is new?

Testing HydroxyChloroquine on Black COVID-19 patients is more medical racism

Black conspiracy and skepticism persist because we believe the evidence of our experience

Is COVID-19 a crisis within a crisis for Black women?

How my “functionality” kept others from seeing the severity of my depression

How to navigate shared spaces that don’t invite in more panic

The Five Signs of a Great (Virtual) Black Therapist

COVID-19 shows how little we learned from the AIDS Epidemic

Reminders and affirmations to help you through quarantine

Black folks die from broken hearts all the time

Big Pharma and the prison industry are colluding to overmedicate incarcerated populations

Mental health treatment is a Black tradition, white people just took credit for it

There will never be a “Sexual Revolution” under capitalism

Yup. Non-profit culture and performative activism perpetuate ableism and anti-Blackness

Black people aren’t resistant to mental health treatment. We’re resistant to framing it as a cure

We need to respond to PTSD with community care

Medical Ableism is a Cultural and Institutional Issue, not an Individual Problem

Black people self harm, too

Black youth suicide is increasing. We can’t wait to create space to talk about mental health

How the media & justice system re-traumatize sexual assault survivors

Learning to love myself despite the struggles of dating and sex as a diabetic Black woman

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

The ghost of the racist “father of modern gynecology” is still killing Black infants & child-bearers

As the state increasingly regulates our health, Black women are finding freedom in herbal medicine

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

Black liberation requires making room for uncomfortable manifestations of mental illness

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