Tag: culture
Domestic Violence, Mental Health, and Lemon Pepper Wings
We should be teaching boys that masculinity without emotional honesty is a danger. We should be teaching girls that love should never require fear. We should be teaching co-parents that unmanaged conflict can become generational trauma. And we should be teaching communities how to spot a person in crisis before we get in line at someone’s funeral.
We also need to be honest enough to say something else: Many men have never been taught how to handle rejection, shame, powerlessness, heartbreak, or fear. They’ve been taught, instead, how to posture, perform, possess, suppress, joke, deflect, drink, and disappear. And if all else fails, they’re taught to explode.
The whiteness of children’s books
Imaginary black children remain almost as marginalised as real ones, at least in mainstream publishing. In literature, as in life, the belief that children are valuable, vulnerable and in need of protection has mostly been denied to black children in the United States.
The Impact of Absent Fathers on the Mental Health of Black Boys
This rarely talked about subject is critically important in address the impact of fatherlessness in our children. The Impact of Absent Fathers on the Mental Health of […]