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The Black body remembers our traumas even when we try to forget
By Najya A. Williams Throughout my childhood, my mom always scheduled early morning dental appointments to accommodate the remarkably busy lives we both led. Once I was old enough to schedule my own visits, I unsurprisingly fell back into this familiar routine. I normally don’t think twice about my check-ups, especially if I’m not experiencing […]
Nobody is checking for your Interracial Relationship
Nobody is checking for your Interracial Relationship by JeCorey Holder As another year washes over me in a haze of social instability and I spiritually prepare myself for the Saint Valentine’s Clearance Candy Harvest, the same thing inevitably happens. I notice an uptick of some of the most annoying interracial couples in the world aggressively […]
The Body: A Photo Series by Imani
CW: images of blood, body dysmorphia and dissociation by Imani So much of horror is antiblack and ableist, so I decided to reclaim horror in a way that centers black + chronically ill people. The Body is a stylized revisiting of a medical side effect I experienced. As someone who is horrified by my body, […]
Black men’s body dysmorphia needs to be discussed more openly among us
by Donnie Moreland This essay discusses body dysmorphia, self-harm ideation, and fatphobia. I remember wanting to drop fire in my belly. Wanting to light a match, open my mouth and drop it in to burn the fat. This was one of the engrossing illusions I obsessed about, from age thirteen until an age very much […]
Reflecting on GayL Jones’ ‘CoRregidora’ and its excavation of transgenerational traumas on the body
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 exploring these topics alongside the theme of Imagination and the Arts, and we are interested in publishing works that address these topics and the things surrounding them. This […]
I grew up thinking that my body was blemished by Blackness
Editor’s Note: April is Black Women’s History Month. Throughout this month, Black Youth Project is celebrating Black women. This month is also National Minority Health Month, Autism Awareness Month, Sexual Assault Awareness Month, Child Abuse Prevention Month. We are interested in publishing works that address these topics and the things surrounding them. By Gloria Oladipo […]
Delectable Negroes: On precarity, death, and the Black queer male body
by Robert Randolph, Jr., Ph.D. This essay contains discussions of sexual violence, lynching, and the serial murder of queer Black men. Writer’s Note: The Deputy Editor invited me to write about this subject and I have carried these men, the named and unnamed in my head for weeks. I blew the deadline time and time […]
Wear Your Voice campaign aims to correct how the body positivity movement fails women of color
Wear Your Voice, an intersectional feminist magazine which centers the voices of Black and Brown queer women, femmes, trans, and non-binary people, has just launched a campaign in an attempt to tackle some of the less discussed issues within the mainstream body positivity movement.
Study: Body cam footage negatively influences viewers’ perceptions of police violence victims
According to Pacific Standard, a new study indicates that people who watch police body camera footage ascribe less blame to police than people who view the same police misconduct on a dashcam. Following the 2014 shooting of Micheal Brown Jr. in Ferguson, Missouri, a national conversation about police violence culminated in departments all over the […]
I need white women to leave me, my body, and my vote alone from now on
by JaLoni Amor Owens The first thing I did on the morning of November 8, 2016 was remind all of my friends back home in Massachusetts to vote, but on the morning of election day of this year, the first thing I did was groan and bury my face in my pillow. The last thing […]
On embodying darkness
by Cheikh Athj |disarmament fear is many bodies. torop. allow yourself to feel them, but do not stay stuck. move past fear toward courage, knowing it comes from fear. if you fail, face fear again. without it, there would be no courage. hala: do not stay stuck. once courage is embodied, allow it to push you […]
10 body affirmations for Black girls when the world tells us we’re too much
By Salaam Green Dear Black Girl, While tutoring an eight year old girl, she looked down at me and stated, “We have the same bodies.” This young girl attends a predominately suburban white school, and as we were doing homework she observed the notable fact that we were shaped alike. The look on her face […]