As I write this, it is Black History Month 2022. As I looked in the mirror this morning, I felt plagued by the fullness in my body holding the conscious awareness of my own trauma and racial issues as an autistic, biracial Black transman and what this means for me as a dad raising a daughter who is Black and biracial.
Prior to this year, I interacted with Black History Month through disconnecting and dissociating because of the anger and pain it brought up for me.
I often found myself triggered and thrown into memories of the house I grew up in full of trauma, colorism, and high racial tensions which mixed with being bullied due to my race and disabilities across my childhood and young adulthood.
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