01/30/2023
: NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Dr. Alisha Moreland-Capuia, an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and the founder and director of the Institute for Trauma-Informed Systems Change at McLean (Harvard), about coping with the trauma Black people experience after horrific and dehumanizing events like the killing of by Memphis police officers.
Listen in or read the transcript here: https://n.pr/3WNYX6K
"While many Black women and Black people have found a way to survive - which, by the way, let me add that survival is a low bar - what that means is that in the context of microaggressions, macroaggressions, discrimination, unsafe work conditions, unsafe environments and community - that they've been able to be cognitively intact, meaning you're able to complete cognitive tasks and get the work done. But it comes at the expense of overall physical and mental health. So while folks may look good on the outside or look like they're performing, on the inside there's a much different story. And so what you get to is shorter life span or even less sort of quality of life."
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