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Artist and photographer Deun Ivory has found her true God-given passion in life creating and cultivating a safe space for Black women to heal from their trauma. Ivory is a sexual abuse survivor, and while on her own healing journey, she learned that embracing the truth about her past and how it changed her was the only way to move forward. In 2018, Ivory won a VSCO Voices grant that encouraged applicants to create a project that showcased photography reflective of being “home.” Her response was to share the powerful stories of Black female sexual abuse survivors who shared their stories with her for a photo series she named “the body: a home for love.
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Everyone deserves access to resources that improve their physical and emotional health. But here s another truth: Black women s wellness needs are not always met. And many health care options fail to speak to the unique experiences that Black people face.
No one fares worse from poor treatment than Black women. In the U.S., Black women have the highest pregnancy mortality rates. During the period between 2014 and 2017, the death rate for non-Hispanic Black women was 41.7 per 100,000 live births in comparison to 13.4 deaths per 100,000 live births for non-Hispanic white women. When it comes to mental health care, Black people, in general, are less likely to receive proper treatment, are more likely to receive poor quality care if they do seek treatment, and are more likely to terminate treatment prematurely compared to their white counterparts.
The ancestral religious practices of the African diaspora were forced underground by the White church. (source images from Unsplash and Getty)
In 1928, novelist and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston drove her gray Chevrolet down to New Orleans to study under the city’s best hoodoo doctors. She was collecting information for a book on Black American folklore, and when
Mules and Men was published seven years later, Hurston declared that hoodoo was “burning with a flame in America, with all the intensity of a suppressed religion.”
In calling hoodoo suppressed, Hurston was making a point about the resilience of people in the African diaspora. Enslaved Africans who were brought to the United States and forcibly converted to Christianity didn’t unlearn the spiritual practices of their motherlands. As a matter of survival, some of these practices like hoodoo were taken underground. Others like spirit possession, reframed as “catching the Holy Ghost�
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