Black Mental Health Matters: Self Caring While Being Woke

Whitney Alese
5 min readMay 27, 2020

It’s hard out here for woke girls.

The constant stream of police brutality, blatant racism, injustice, climate change, and overall bad news from around the nation and globe is enough to make you numb as protection from all of the heartbreaks they render. One day, you catch a White Woman weaponizing her tears against a Black Man, another day you catch an actual video…

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Whitney Alese

Whitney Alese is an award winning writer & creator featured in WIRED Magazine, I-D Magazine, NBC, & Chalkboard Magazine.