S4E7 - Black Therapists Deserve Better

In today's modern cancel culture, it seems the public is more willing to doxx marginalized folks, specifically Black people whom they disagree with, when white people saying similar things don’t receive nearly the same level of backlash. In this episode, Lexi highlights three specific instances over the past 6 months or so that involved a Black mental health care provider has been dog-piled after stating objective truths or setting personal boundaries and challenges listeners to reflect and attempt to respond to things that trigger us, rather than reacting. 

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Resources from today’s episode:

• 😭 Find Bree on social media! Twitter, Instagram, TikTok

• 😭 Find Nicole on social media! Twitter, Instagram, TikTok

• 😭 Find Shahem on social media! Twitter, Instagram, TikTok

• 😭 “What’s Behind the Rise of Lonely, Single Men” by Greg Matos on Psychology Today 

• 😭 I’m a Black Therapist And My Tik Toks Got Me Fired by Shabree Rawls 

• 😭 “Therapist fired after calling out Black men for lacking ‘emotional intelligence’ in viral TikTok video”

• 😭 “Angry Black Women” Ep. 201 of Wine, Weed, and Whispers, hosted by Taylor B and Cass

• 😭 “Psychodynamic and Psychoanalytic Therapists on Social Media” by Sara London (Article that calls out Nicole and caused the backlash, has since been removed from Psychology Today)

• 😭 Nicole’s tweet about above article

• 😭 https://laist.com/news/health/black-therapists-fight-to-be-seen-on-tiktok-when-they-are-they-find-solidarity

• 😭 Jacy’s twitter

• 😭Nicole’s Legacy Member Club 

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These resources are for listeners in the US:

• 😭 Suicide Prevention Hotline: [phone]

• 😭 Crisis Text Line: Text HOME to 741741

• 😭 NAMI National Warmlines (text lines and phone lines; not for crisis)

• 😭 RAINN Sexual Assault Hotline: [phone] (HOPE)

• 😭 LBTQIA+ Support: The Trevor Project

• 😭 Resources for Undocumented Immigrants and Families