The creation of art-making spaces as a framework for my autoethnographic methodology enables me to delve into my family history of women in my family principally through storytelling and lived experiences. Mental health disparities based on minority racial status are well identified, including inequities in access, symptom severity, diagnosis, and treatment. In this essay, I address the underrepresented history of Black women in North America, starting with the history of enslavement. The impacts of structural racism, can take a mental toll on African Americans. My work highlights the history of Black women and resilience the effects of trauma on Black women including Black trans women and the importance of addressing and healing from trauma within spaces specifically for Black women, both cis and trans. My research creates community and creative agency of Black women’s mental health and opens conversations surrounding the stigma related to Black women and mental illness. He is the author of Heed the Hollow (Graywolf Press, 2019), winner of the 2018 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. In 2016, Tariq was a fellow of the SSRC’s Dissertation Proposal Development Program. In response to these issues, the art making spaces that I create address the stigma of mental illness in the Black community and how race is not included in the mental health conversation. He is a graduate of Emory University, and holds a PhD in English from the University of Michigan. Research from 2019 found that stress during pregnancy is one way intergenerational trauma can be passed down. In both Black and Jewish culture, there is a history of trauma, but also of resilience, and of traditions which help to build a positive sense of identity. In these works, I employ family narratives, art making, analysis of secondary resources and community building to address the impact of intergenerational trauma on Black women’s mental health.There have not been enough studies on mental health among Black women and many Black women do not recognize the signs, thus never report the symptoms to their doctor as they uphold the enduring position of a strong Black woman. Black Mental Health Grief Emotional Health Sex & Relationships Trauma. The Untold Story, is an autoethnographic portfolio comprised of an exhibit, a filmed performance, a photobook and an essay. The Indian Appropriation Act (18511880) and the Mandatory Boarding School Era (18781920) adversely affected the native communities and resulted in them experiencing intergenerational poverty, geographic isolation, unemployment, high mortality, etc.
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