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Caring For Each Other After Violence: 4 Things We Can Do To Create Trauma-Informed Communities in Our Schools, Organizations and Activist Groups

6 Steps You Can Take To Start Healing From Trauma Right Now

by CarmenLeah Ascencio Growing up, I thought that experiencing violence or abuse was practically inevitable if you were a…
What’s Missing When We Talk About Self-Care (Ask BGD 1)

Ask BGD is a new feature from Black Girl Dangerous. In this installment, Mia McKenzie and CarmenLeah Ascencio discuss what’s…
Loving Each Other Wounded: 5 Essential Questions for Healthy QTPOC Love

by CarmenLeah Ascencio Somewhere in my late 20s I made the commitment to love and make family with another…
Being Our Revolution: A Simpler Approach to Change in the New Year

by CarmenLeah Ascencio I cried a lot in 2014. Cried like Chavela. Like I deserved La Llorona award of the…
POC Solidarity In Love: How To Support Our Black Partners and Friends In These Trying Times

by CarmenLeah Ascencio You might be wondering why an article on POC solidarity in personal relationships is in my column…
Going To Therapy As A QTPOC, Without Being Harmed, Erased Or Baffled

By CarmenLeah Ascencio This is the second installment in CarmenLeah’s new, monthly column about QTPoC wellness and healing. We…
Trying Therapy As A Queer Person of Color, Despite All the Reasons Not To

by CarmenLeah Ascencio This is the first installment in CarmenLeah’s new, monthly column about QTPoC wellness and healing. …
Four Person-to-Person Things I Do to Address Anti-Blackness con Mi Gente

by CarmenLeah Ascencio When my mothers married in 1989 I did not know that their union as a (non-black) Nuyorican…

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