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It’s been requested that I document this moment in life….
I ain’t wrote shit in a long time.
Mostly afraid of the things I’ll notice that I called myself tryin to forget. Shit seems to creep up on you when you’re quiet enough to covey emotions and relate them to a more familiar thing. Hell, sometimes the analogy makes you cry more than the actual event…
But it ain’t all sad. In my writing’s absence I’ve learned to recognize blessings and triumph. And I’ve actually lived life so much that I haven’t exactly been a broken hearted poet…My life has happened and ever since I fell in love with my niece and nephew and reconnected with my best friends life is a lot more joyous.
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1 Stop T-Shirt Shop →
Check the 1 Stop T-Shirt Shop @ The Village Flea Market in the Southeast Corner! #OnYoHood
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UNTITLED (How Does It Feel)
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In clinical psychiatric settings, black women are diagnosed very differently from white counterparts who present with the same symptoms. For instance, black women have considerably higher rates of anxiety disorders than white women. Blacks are diagnosed with higher lifetime rates of simple phobia, social phobia, and agoraphobia. Therapists tend to view African American women as anxious or phobic while perceiving white women who describe similar emotions and behaviors as sad and depressed. Black women are more likely to be described by therapists as hostile and paranoid, and diagnosis for black women is inclined to be more severe than for white women. In these diagnostic differences we see the operation of the social construction of black womanhood that disallows sadness. Therapists are less likely to perceive a black woman as sad; instead, they see her as angry or anxious.
– Melissa Harris-Perry Sister Citizen; Shame, Stereotypes and Black Women in America (via brashblacknonbeliever)(via teachingliteracy)
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