Just Your Average Black Woman Going Through Life
I am not a doctor or Nurse, but I am a health care professional and as an Occupational Therapist I service adult patients alongside them. At a doctor’s request for rehabilitative services, I evaluate several skills including performance of basic self-care tasks, getting in and out of the bed, standing and transferring to various…
In reading about the 16 year old young women being sent home for her ‘unnatural’ hair color in North Carolina, professional hair braiders in Pennsylvania fighting for changes to licensing requirements, and hearing about one little girl’s questions about her natura hair, I thought about how Black women’s hair has been a conversation for…
As an Occupational Therapist I work with many children with different limitations including fine motor, gross motor, visual motor, and visual perceptual skills among other areas. The definition of these skills are as follows: All of this is to say that having average skill in these areas is the foundation to academic success…
In the U.S. there are approximately 18% of Black women and girls going missing and compared to the general number of us who make up the population this is a very large amount. There have been many cases that have gotten national attention over the years when women and kids go missing, but many…
I like to travel but of the places I’ve been I usually go multiple times. I am now making it my new goal to go to places I have yet to go to within the United States and internationally; first up was Dallas, Texas. I stayed there for 5 nights, and it is a city…
***Warning, this is for those who have some type of control when it comes to spending*** Summer is here and during this time more money may be spent with increased travel, to engage in outdoor activities, buying new outfits, and just being out of the home more often. I’m not a frugal girl by…
July is National Minority Mental Health Month. This month brings awareness to the barrier to resources affecting many communities, especially that of Black, Brown, and Natives. Now as an Occupational Therapist, we can work in facilities that service people with mental illnesses and although I do not work full time with this population, as…
Today is the last day of June, but also the last day of Black Music Month for the year, so to end this decades battle series, I would like to honor the one and only Usher Raymond. Usher is a musical talent, a dancer, and all around entertainer. Since the age of 14, he…
Summer is officially here! Yay! As the weather gets warmer my spirit becomes happier as I put those long sleeves away and wear lighter clothing that allow the warm breeze to hit my skin. Fashion is a way to express yourself as an individual as no two people dress exactly alike all the time,…
Since the 1960’s girl groups have been a staple of music, but during those times most were doo wop formation and had similar looks. In the 1970’s, some of them expanding with a little more edge and personality, but it was the 1980’s when groups started to present their own styles and this has…