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Hormonal Birth Control + Libido | Let's Talk About It!

2017

This has been a topic that I've been researching over the past few months, and decided that it was something that needed to be discussed on FemmeHead because hardly anyone talks about it. Why is female libido so taboo?

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Midwifing—A Womanist Approach to Pastoral Counseling: Investigating the Fractured Self, Slavery, Violence, and the Black Woman

Midwifing—A Womanist Approach to Pastoral Counseling: Investigating the Fractured Self, Slavery, Violence, and the Black Woman, is an investigation of intergenerational trauma. Exploring the impact of slavery, violence, racism, sexism, classism, and other isms on the self of the Black woman.

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Myrna Thurmond-Malone, Pamela Ayo Yetunde (foreword)
2025
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First and Only: A Black Woman’s Guide to Thriving at Work and in Life

As Black women, we have to work twice as hard to be perceived as half as skilled. We have to work until August of this year to earn what a white man made by last December. We are besieged by racist and sexist bullying online.

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Jennifer R. Farmer
2021
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The Strong Black Woman: How a Myth Endangers the Physical and Mental Health of Black Women (African American Studies)

Meet Black women who have learned through hard lessons the importance of self-care and how to break through the cultural and family resistance to seeking therapy and professional mental health care.

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Marita Golden
2025
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Life, I Swear: Intimate Stories from Black Women on Identity, Healing, and Self-Trust

In this stunningly illustrated essay collection inspired by the popular podcast Life, I Swear, prominent Black women reflect on self-love and healing, sharing stories of the trials and tribulations they’ve faced and what has helped them confront pain, heal wounds, and find connection.

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Chloe Dulce Louvouezo , Elaine Welteroth (foreword)
2025
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Jasmine Marie Wants to Use Breathwork to Help 1 Million Black Women Deal With Trauma

The founder of Black Girls Breathing set a goal to hit by 2025, here’s how she’s going to do it.

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Ashley Simpson
2021
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Why Imposter Syndrome Hits Women and Women of Colour Harder

Self-doubt and imposter syndrome permeate the workplace, but women, especially women of colour, are particularly likely to experience it. Why is this—and how can it be changed?

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Sheryl Nance-Nash
2020
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Black Women’s Mental Health: Balancing Strength and Vulnerability

This book offers a unique, interdisciplinary, and thoughtful look at the challenges and potency of Black women’s struggle for inner peace and mental stability.

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Stephanie Y. Evans (editor), Nsenga K. Burton (editor), Kanika Bell (editor)
2018
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Soothe Your Nerves: The Black Woman’s Guide to Understanding and Overcoming Anxiety, Panic, and Fearz

Thousands of Black women suffer from anxiety. What’s worse is that many of us have been raised to believe we are Strong Black Women and that seeking help shows weakness.

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Angela Neal-Barnett
2025
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Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women that a Movement Forgot

Today’s feminist movement has a glaring blind spot, and paradoxically, it is women.

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Mikki Kendall
2021
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The Value in the Valley: A Black Woman’s Guide Through Life’s Dilemmas

Is it the job you hate but need in order to pay the rent? Is it that relationship that you gave your all to only to end up with a broken heart...again? Perhaps it’s your children, a family member, or a life-long friend doing you in, dragging you down, pushing you to the brink.

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Iyanla Vanzant
1996
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