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Spiritual Director Dr. Crystal Jones Is Cultivating Safe Spaces for Black Women to Recenter and Love Themselves

By Elle McKenzie — 2019

I am very particular about the use of ‘healing others’ as I believe that term creates a certain level of superiority that I find disempowering. When I chose to take responsibility of allowing myself to be fully revealed, I allowed the seed inside of me to be fully expressed.

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For Queer Men of Color, Pressure to Have a Perfect Body Is About Race Too

For many of us, men with broad shoulders, narrow hips, taut muscles, and white skin — sun-kissed or pale under hot lights — became an ideal we couldn’t escape. We coveted images of these bodies like treasure, and they educated us in the rules of attraction.

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Free the Nippleless! From Ourselves and the Shame of Living in a Society that Rarely Acknowledges Us

For women like me who lose our nipples to breast cancer, learning to love our changed bodies can be a journey.

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I’m Not Gonna Tell You You’re Beautiful

When I said I was struggling, people would tell me I was beautiful. The world had drained out all the metrics of measuring beautiful and replaced it with scales and calorie counts.

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Black Well-Being