On Saturday, June 20th at 11am EST, we will be coming with a discussion on COLORISM. "If you black, get back. If you brown, stick around. If you yellow, you mellow. And if you white, you alright." How many of us grew up hearing this from the oldheads? While the parable isn't as popular today, the sentiment is just as loud in our music, film, schools, and homes. Parents playing favorites, being proud of lighter skin children, checking the baby's ears to see if they would get any darker, and the preference for lighter skin figures in pop culture iconography. We're going to lay out on the table w ..read more

We laughed, we cried, and we bravely spoke our truth. People think this healing shit is cute until you're in the trenches of your trauma looking it head on. Start offering yourself gentle comfort and praise for your presence in yourself and commitment to healing yourself. We all opened up about our wounds and told our stories. We also shared the ways we've been working to heal the little girl who was traumatized by her first protector. On Saturday, May 30, 2020 The Last Word with Dr. Nefertiti was live and direct with the first episode, Healing the Mother Wound: Abuse and Trauma at the Hands ..read more

On Saturday, June 20th at 11am EST, we will be coming with a discussion on COLORISM. "If you black, get back. If you brown, stick around. If you yellow, you mellow. And if you white, you alright." How many of us grew up hearing this from the oldheads? While the parable isn't as popular today, the sentiment is just as loud in our music, film, schools, and homes. Parents playing favorites, being proud of lighter skin children, checking the baby's ears to see if they would get any darker, and the preference for lighter skin figures in pop culture iconography. We're going to lay out on the table w ..read more

This, like every conversation we have, was raw and healing. It stripped the infected scab off for many of us, but only to clear out the infection, and then treat it with a salve of truth and nurturing, patched us up, and gave us the tools to keep on cleaning so the infection doesn't return. Community healing is the wave bc where else will you find people who can relate to your experiences like other black women? It's gonna be beautiful ..read more

We laughed, we cried, and we bravely spoke our truth. People think this healing shit is cute until you're in the trenches of your trauma looking it head on. Start offering yourself gentle comfort and praise for your presence in yourself and commitment to healing yourself. We all opened up about our wounds and told our stories. We also shared the ways we've been working to heal the little girl who was traumatized by her first protector. On Saturday, May 30, 2020 The Last Word with Dr. Nefertiti was live and direct with the first episode, Healing the Mother Wound: Abuse and Trauma at the Hands ..read more

On Saturday, June 20th at 11am EST, we will be coming with a discussion on COLORISM. "If you black, get back. If you brown, stick around. If you yellow, you mellow. And if you white, you alright." How many of us grew up hearing this from the oldheads? While the parable isn't as popular today, the sentiment is just as loud in our music, film, schools, and homes. Parents playing favorites, being proud of lighter skin children, checking the baby's ears to see if they would get any darker, and the preference for lighter skin figures in pop culture iconography. We're going to lay out on the table w ..read more

This, like every conversation we have, was raw and healing. It stripped the infected scab off for many of us, but only to clear out the infection, and then treat it with a salve of truth and nurturing, patched us up, and gave us the tools to keep on cleaning so the infection doesn't return. Community healing is the wave bc where else will you find people who can relate to your experiences like other black women? It's gonna be beautiful ..read more

We laughed, we cried, and we bravely spoke our truth. People think this healing shit is cute until you're in the trenches of your trauma looking it head on. Start offering yourself gentle comfort and praise for your presence in yourself and commitment to healing yourself. We all opened up about our wounds and told our stories. We also shared the ways we've been working to heal the little girl who was traumatized by her first protector. On Saturday, May 30, 2020 The Last Word with Dr. Nefertiti was live and direct with the first episode, Healing the Mother Wound: Abuse and Trauma at the Hands ..read more