Let’s be honest. The unsolicited relationship advice pipeline on social media has gotten completely out of hand. Scroll through Instagram for five minutes and you’ll find someone — not a therapist, not…
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More than one in five American adults battle depression, bipolar disorder, or some other mental illness. And even with insurance, about two-thirds of those patients can’t access treatment. That’s because insurers are…
Let me tell you something about this community. We have survived every single attempt to erase us. Every policy, every system, every era that said our access did not matter — we…
The federal government is pulling funding from Black mental health programs. Here’s what we’re losing. Let me be clear about something: the mental health system was not built for us. It never…
I wrote the poem below because I have grown tired of being summoned. There is, now, a peculiar demand placed upon the human voice. It is no longer enough to feel, or…
Beloved, let me be honest with you before we do anything else. We disappeared. Purposely Awakened went quiet — and if you were here from the beginning, you noticed. You might have…
Beloved, I need you to stop what you are doing for a second. Because Rihanna — without releasing a single album in a decade, without a tour, without a press run, without…
We are allowed to be wanted. We are allowed to want. It shouldn’t feel radical to say that — but it does, because for a very long time, the cultural conversation around…
They need us to compete. That’s why they keep building the competition. It’s not an accident that Black women are constantly placed in rooms with limited seats, told the resources are scarce,…
Nobody taught us to want ourselves. That’s the quiet truth that sits underneath conversations about plus-size Black women and desirability. We were handed mirrors that didn’t reflect us — and then told…
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