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Burnout From Performing Blackness

Mind Your Mental Podcast by Dr. Raquel Martin

Oct 21, 202524:51Podcast

What happens when being "Black enough" becomes a performance? Dr. Martin unpacks the mental health cost of masking, code-switching, and respectability politics, and why reclaiming your identity is an act of liberation.

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