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LIFE, LIVELIHOOD, OR LUXURY: HOW SOCIAL JUSTICE FEELS THREATENING TO PEOPLE WITH PRIVILEGE WHEN IT U

A recent conversation with some colleagues confirmed a theory I’d been floating around about how people interpret the potential consequen...

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TOP FIVE SENSUAL SONGS

The psychology of sensual, sexy music interests me because I love to know what turns people on. Is it a slow melody with heavy bass, or i...

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WHAT DOES LIBERATION LOOK LIKE?

The officer who murdered Philando Castile was found not-guilty this week. I am sad, but I am not surprised. Most people I know are not su...

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A SIMPLE RECOMMENDATION FOR WHITE ALLIES

When you set a meeting to discuss a social justice issue, choose a space, neighborhood, or establishment that is non-White. The White hab...

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BLACK LIVES MATTER MEDITATIONS

As a counseling psychologist, a healer, and a Black woman with a love ethic to my activism, this project is one of my contributions to th...

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Pleasure Worthiness

Do you have a sensational sex life? There is only one way to answer that question in the authentic affirmative. If you didn’t say “hell y...

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WHITE ALLIES TALK TO YOUR KIDS ABOUT CHARLOTTESVILLE

Yesterday White Supremacist rioters were in Charlottesville with torches, echoing Klan rallies of what some people thought were US histor...

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ON ERICA GARNER AND HEALING RACIAL TRAUMA

I felt an eerie combination of a sense of sadness and supposition when I heard that Erica Garner died after experiencing a heart attack. ...

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THREE STRETCHES TO SET YOUR SENSUAL SELF FREE

Most women I know don’t have a lot of time to focus on embracing their sensual selves. We’re busy building businesses, raising kids, runn...

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First Of All

Click the image to purchase! Black women are justifiably angry sometimes. This journal is to be used like the good friend you debrief wit...

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