I’m a Black Woman and I Self-Harm
Consider this your trigger warning.
6 min readJan 27, 2020
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I’m not an adolescent. I’m not White. I’m not acting out for attention.
I am a Black queer woman in my forties who intentionally inflicts pain on her body.
Why the fuck would anyone do that?
Honestly, I have no clue. I only know why I do it. I wish I could say “why I did…