{"id":955285,"date":"2026-05-12T17:49:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T17:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/955285\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T17:49:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T17:49:40","slug":"a-new-oakland-comic-book-unpacks-black-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/955285\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Oakland Comic Book Unpacks Black Mental Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c[We\u2019re] normalizing the fact that people do have issues, and that it\u2019s OK to address it and that, it\u2019s OK to even have doubts if therapy is gonna work,\u201d says Glass, who previously worked as a counselor for young people in a group home.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13989433\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_4165.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"820\" height=\"679\"  \/>Authors Janell Grace and Malik Glass (left to right). (Courtesy of Janell Grace)<\/p>\n<p>Across the three volumes of Love Conquers All, Grace and Glass explore multiple levels of trauma that can shake one\u2019s foundation. In addition to the personal loss of Kennedy\u2019s sister \u2014 which parallels Grace\u2019s own experience of losing a sister of her own \u2014 the story also alludes to the global trauma of natural disasters, and the reverberating effects of losing one\u2019s home. After Kennedy\u2019s family is displaced from New Orleans, his parents are in survival mode, putting food on the table by any means necessary.<\/p>\n<p>On an even larger scale, the books and short film also allude to generational trauma. In part one, a character recommends a book to Kennedy: Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome by social work professor Dr. Joy DeGruy, an influential text that unpacks the lasting scars of racist violence. \u201cIf you wanna know about Black mental health, read that book,\u201d Grace says. \u201cIt gives you a perspective that is not talked about in schools. It\u2019s not talked about amongst our families.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201c[We\u2019re] normalizing the fact that people do have issues, and that it\u2019s OK to address it and that,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":955286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4317],"tags":[105,218,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-955285","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-mental-health","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116562871438589896","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=955285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/955286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}