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.
Therapy’s Essential, But Is It Helping Us?
Black Gen Z is the most therapy-literate generation the United States has seen. They share appointment updates on TikTok, reference trauma responses in casual conversations and seek healing out loud in ways that once seemed taboo.
But if we ask them if therapy is actually helping them, then the answers get more complicated.