OpinionPoliticsWomen and Girls

The Political Nature of Black Women’s Trauma

By Jennifer Bailey
May 12, 2017
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For black women, our trauma is by nature political. Our very embodiment places us in a never-ending cycle of entanglement with systems, people, and policies designed to perpetuate violence and domination.

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