By Arisika Razak — 2021
Arisika Razak shares her reflections on trauma, oppression, and healing the wounds of racism.
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CLEAR ALL
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.
Black women are 37 cents behind men in the pay gap—in other words, for every dollar a man makes, black women make 63 cents.
Impostor syndrome is not a unique feeling, but some researchers believe it hits minority groups harder.
The time of COVID-19 and racial justice protests has been stressful, but it has also spurred BIPOC clinicians to find new ways of helping their communities and clients cope, heal, and thrive.
What better way to use Black History Month than as practice for creating a world that demands displays of Black joy and pleasure year-round?
“You’re always communicating about race, whether you talk about it or not.”
“I just didn’t want them to stress and not be afraid to go to school. The less they knew, the better it was.”
Above all else, you will begin to love the person you see in the mirror every day. The false perception of victimhood will fall away, and the victorious nature of life and living will become your new way of operating in the world.
Many Black womxn experience themselves as fraudulent or substandard. It's a lie.
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