Why The End of a Friendship Can Shatter You in Ways Romance Never Could
We know how to grieve when a romance ends. There are breakup playlists, comfort foods, and a cultural script for heartbreak. But when the loss is a friend who once felt like your soulmate, there’s usually silence. No rituals. No shared language. No space to hold the grief that follows.
      
      The Cookout Was Never for You: Black Kinship, Digital Gatekeeping and Cultural Boundaries Online
Once a symbol of Black cultural kinship, the cookout has become a viral litmus test for allyship, exposing tensions around digital gatekeeping, erasure and appropriation as Black communities push back on who gets invited, and why the invite even exists.