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“It's always hard for me to find a therapist who is a black woman or even a woman of color. It's something that we've always been told is not for us. It's top down.”

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Morgan Parker

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“I don't think that there are as many black women or women of color becoming psychiatrists, so we can't find them and then we feel looked at and studied and that's part of what is damaging to us. It's hard to find therapy that is actually a tool for your own liberation. I think we can be really distrustful.”

Thinking Feels Hard Black Color Becoming Tools Liberation Therapy Black Women Psychiatrist

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“So much of my writing process is trying to eliminate any kind of shame or fear of the thoughts that I'm having.”

Writing Trying Kind Process Shame Writing Process

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“Where I would usually backspace, I stop and say, "You know what? This is important, that I say how I feel and don't sugarcoat it, and don't avoid it."”

Knows Feels Important

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“In my experience when I do try to avoid something, it makes its way into the work anyway. To be in front of it and just make friends with it is easier for me.”

Way Trying Fronts Easier

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“I think that we need to make it our goal to define freedom for ourselves.”

Thinking Needs Goal

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“So much of the world and the systems that we live within are made to keep us from feeling like we're free. The way that black women in American came to be is just diametrically opposed to being free.”

World Way Made Feelings Black Black Women Being Free

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“We kind of have to rewrite our own stories and our own ways of being free.”

Way Kind Stories Being Free

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“Sometimes it's just rejecting stereotypes, sometimes it's creating work. Sometimes it's just blocking out the noise.”

Sometimes Creating Noise Block Stereotype Rejecting

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“Аrt movements are always linked to some kind of turmoil.”

Kind Movement Linked Turmoil

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“We can look at history and see that [political turmoil is] fertile ground for art.”

Looks Art Political Turmoil Fertile Fertile Ground Political Turmoil

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