00:00Dr. In terms of the way that women deal with this, I'm just going to generalize it. In my
00:05experience, Black women soldier on. We push through. We don't necessarily stop and acknowledge
00:12what we're feeling and talk it through. Does that matter? Is it important to acknowledge the
00:19severity of what you're feeling and to have conversations with people about what you're
00:24feeling? Absolutely. What happens when we are traumatized? Generally, Black women want to
00:31know, what do I do? We are an action-oriented people. It's a high cultural value. The question
00:37is, what do I do? We'll say, don't talk about it unless you're going to do something about it.
00:42When it comes to the trauma, if it seems there's nothing I can do about it, then I don't want to
00:47talk about it. Sometimes we do find things to do. We saw a lot of grief-inspired activism in response to
00:53the Black Lives Matter movement. We saw moms getting out there and advocating because they
00:58had lost sons. So when there's something to do, we'll do it. But if it feels like there's nothing
01:03we can do to impact what we've gone through, then we will try and redirect our action to something
01:08that we can do. So I think the important thing for us to realize is we can still use this cultural
01:13tool when we've been traumatized. We just need to redirect it towards the right thing.
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