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‘You Had No Father, You Had The Armor’
I wrote about inherited trauma and the way my relationships with my brother and father informed my attraction to men. This piece began writing me last summer after I listened to Jay Z’s album, 4:44. Here is an excerpt: I … Continue reading
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Tagged abuse, Blackness, fathers, gender, masculinity, queerness, Selective Mutism, silence, Trauma
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