Badass Black Girl / Losing It: A Black Girl on Suicide Prevention

In the 10 years following my stay in the mental ward, I've learned to confront depression, anxiety, grief, and loss through poetry. I help others write their way through trauma, build community and create social change. I work with veterans, disenfranchised youth, cancer patients and survivors, victims of domestic and sexual violence, minorities, the elderly, those with chronic illness or going through transition and any underserved population in need of writing as a form of therapy—even if they don’t realize that they need writing or therapy.

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