The Black Superwoman & Mental Health: Power & Pain (Hardcover)

Preface - Introduction - 1. Ever Taylor: 15 Times I Choked on My Own Silence" (poem) - 2. Georgene Bess Montgomery: Learning to Swim in an Endless Pool of Fear, Anxiety, and Fatigue (essay) - 3. Katrina Harden Williams: Hopes and Dreams 2022 (essay) - 4. Zoe Phillpotts: Burnout (essay) - 5. Janette Y. Taylor: Still So Deeply Tired (essay) - 6. Venise Berry: Beautiful Baby Boy Blues (short story) - 7. Tiana Warner: Ain’t No Sleep for Da Mule (poem) - Media Representations (stereotypes and stigmas) - Moala Bannavti: My Sisters in Media (poem) - 9. Sharon Bramlett-Solomon: This is My Story, This is My Song: Coping Through Black Gospel Music (essay) - 10. Ashley Wells: The Black Woman and Abuse in Early Black Writing (research) - 11. Venise T. Berry and Aja Witt: Television and Representation: Motivating Black Female Viewers to Get Help for Mental Health Concerns (research) - 12. Shanita Baraka Akintonde: I am NOT your Superwoman: I Only Play One on TV" (essay) - 13. Yosara Trujillo: "Dis Con Nec Ted" (poem) - A Thick Fog of Ugly (navigating hurt, hate and bias) - Z Saj: Isolation (poem) - 15. Tessa Goodwin: I love My Birthday (essay) - 16. Anika Dean: Abandoned, Disappointed, and Angry (essay) - 17. JoAnne Banks: Healing through Intergenerational Storytelling (essay) - 18. Cynthia Harbor: Jess and the Boo Hag (short story) - 19. Tiana Warner: Black Women, Police Violence, and Mental Health (essay) - 20. Chelsea D. Hicks: Forever Tender (poem) - Demons Whispering in Your Ear (self-criticism and suicide) - 21. Averi Bryant: Holes in my Mind (poem) - 22. Valerie Nyberg: My Albatross (essay) - 23. Jan Pena Davis: THICK! (short story) - 24. Tianna Newell: Exhale (essay) - 25. Jalyn Lockett: The Falling Dream (poem) - Faith can Move Mountains (God, belief, and spirituality) - 26. Caitlin Smith: I Want to be a River (poem) - 27. Betty D. Doris: Coping through Spirituality and Faith (research) - 28. Venise T. Berry: Black Female Pastors: Superwoman Meets God (research) - 29. Olisa Yaa Tolokun: Who Heals the Healers? Grandmothers do (essay) - 30. Jacqualyn F. Green: In the Stillness a Voice Resounds (essay) - 31. Vergarie Sanford: Overcoming Obstacles through Faith (essay) - 32. Aja Witt: Grateful (poem) - The Black Superwoman (power and pain) - 33. Chelsea D. Hicks: Weighted Capes (poem) - 34. Ruth D. Edwards: Keep on Keeping On (essay) - 35. Sharon Albert Honore: Black Women Identifying Our Pain: Reidentifying Identity and Embracing Body Awareness (essay) - 36. Tanisha M. Jackson: Believing our own hype: Black Women Artists Cultivating Mental Wellness (research) - 37. Portia A. Jackson Preston: A Litany for the Homegoing of the Strong Black Woman (essay) - 38. Jamillah Witt ? A Rainbow After the Storm (poem) - Author Bios