Black girl therapy: Recent Episodes
McKayla Milam
Relatable/therapeutic content for black women that may or may not be educational and/or funny for some...🤷🏾♀️
In this episode, we discuss how constantly victimizing oneself can be a handicapping mentality to have and how inconsiderate it can be towards other people
Ever wonder why black sitcoms are not as popular as they used to be back in the 90s and early 2000s? Well if so, this episode is definitely for you!
In this episode, we will discuss how black people who don’t attend HBCUs for college are shamed/judged by some of those who do. We will discuss why this type of divisiveness is problematic and needs to stop.
In this episode we will discuss how the portrayal of friendships in Hollywood can feed into insecurities when in regard to real life friendship dynamics.
In this episode, we discuss the experiences of being an only child and cons that comes with it that most people tend to overlook.
In this episode, we are going to talk about how mainstream media and society overall has contributed to the hyper-sexualization of youth.
This episode is about how the mainstream media tends to manipulate the narrative in order to pit marginalized groups against each other.
In this episode, we reflect on how many times in society we as people conflate the struggles of different marginalized groups with each other. As a result, this causes harmful experiences in certain oppressed groups to be erased, diluted or just simply misconstrued.
For this episode, we discuss the different challenges that black women have to overcome when it pertains to their natural hair.
In this episode, we will talk about the way Christianity has been used as an excuse for the justification of oppression.
In this episode, we will be honoring the late Chadwick Boseman by discussing how important it is for the black community to see themselves represented in an uncommon way when it comes to cinema and T.V.
In this episode, we will discuss how certain people of color/some (not all) biracial people claim any blackness they may have only when it’s beneficial to them.
In this episode we will be talking about the negative social, mental and spiritual impact of being judged for coming from a background where your household or family dynamics is not the picture perfect image you see in the Hollywood movies.
During this episode, we will discuss the history and brainwashing of color-ism and how this global issue is harmful in multiple cultural aspects when it comes to different communities involving people of color.
This episode will touch on the shaming, labeling, and disrespect women/girls experience during their menstrual cycle.
In this episode we will be discussing how our own implicit biases cause us to categorize other humans in a box and how the media, Hollywood and just society in general plays a part in brainwashing us to believe these things about one another.
In this episode we will discuss the in appropriate perceptions/images of young girls who happen to be naturally curvy along with the historical roots of black young girls/women continuously being sexualized in today’s society.
In this episode we will be talking about the importance of mental health in different aspects. Here are some freely available sources for mental health wellness Insta: @thelovelandfoundation @theconsciouskid Safari/Google: unsplash.com
In this episode we will be touching on the lack of inclusiveness within the feminism movement.