By Teresa Younger • Complete with unsolicited comments,touching attempts from strangers, and pressure to do away with your coils right now, or you risk the shame of being prevented from attending your graduation or losing gainful employment? Is natural hair controversy a real thing? How have generations dealt with this constant problem? My news feed …
4 reasons why Alcoy’s black pages are violence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMc0jhIxnVQ By Elvira Swartch Lorenzo • No importa lo que tú creas que estás tratando de representar. No importa que creas que así haces felices a los niños. No importa si es una tradición. Si te pintas de un color que no es el tuyo es racista. La controversia del blackface llega cada navidad como el turrón. …
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How the Mental Health Stigma Harms Black Youth
By Stephanie Younger • In the Black community, talking down to, speaking poorly of, publicly humiliating and criminalizing Black youth as a whole is acceptable. In the Black community, body shaming, and devaluing dark skin and type 4 hair on Black girls is acceptable. In the Black community, being violent against Black women and girls, …
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The Terrifying Adventure of Autonomy
By Jourdan Lobban • “Defiant!” “Fresh!” “Rude!” “A bad girl!” Those titles followed me all through my childhood and into my teen years. Anytime I did something bad, I knew what was coming. Lectures in yelling style, laced with fury, and if I didn’t shape up in time, the belt would make an appearance. It …
Riding Rising Waters
By Jourdan Lobban • It was endless The sea of self-doubt Rejection Beating me With its ruthless water Every chance it got It was brutal How it told me Over and Over “You’re bad, Worthless. Rude, Evil, A sinner who needs saving.” All the while I hung my head low Taking blow After blow …
Review: Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future
Courtesy of David Alberto Carmona Coto By Jourdan Lobban • Jourdan Lobban is a goddess with an edge. She aims to live life in all of its rising tides and calm waters, with some books, writing journals and dancing to a variety of clean (and mildly explicit) music.
Why We Skip the Middle
By Jourdan Lobban • After becoming frustratingly bored reading my latest book, my commitment was no more. Instead of powering through the dry spell, my fingers practiced the ultimate sin, which skipping through the book. And instead of reading for the plot, I was fishing for the romance sections that matched my expectations for the …
Analysis: How Racial Profiling Affects Black and Brown Women and Youth
By Stephanie Younger • Are all people in America served and protected by the law? In the documentary, “Profiled - The Mothers of Murdered Black and Latino Youth,” director Kathleen Foster utilizes the power of art, amplifies the voices of Black and Latin American women and youth, and directs attention to protest and dissent. This …
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Queer Windows in Dembow Music
By Princess Jiménez • In the Dominican Republic, where supposedly moral society and the Church often espouse virulent homophobia and transphobia, an unusual alliance has appeared among the very poorest: singers and producers of popular music genre Dembow are working with queer people and trans women, who have become huge stars in their own right. Princess …
An Excerpt from the E-Book, “The Therapeutic Alliance Handbook”
By Traycee Truth • The following excerpt is from Traycee Truth's e-book, the Therapeutic Alliance Handbook."Usually, it is customary to begin an essay/journal of this sort of measure with a precise definition regarding whiteness, yet what are the intersectionalities of this concept? Within most contemporary and progressive circles, it is assumed that the cultural group I …
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