Healing, in this context, thus cannot exist without a full grounding within this Diasporic Grief. It means intimately bearing the depth of our pain. It also means recognizing that alongside this pain is the wisdom we desperately need to co-create new futures.
Author Archives: Evan Auguste
Evan Auguste, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Massachusetts Boston. His identities as a Haitian-African American man have informed his work on examining how the U.S.’s history of anti-Blackness has shaped psychological realities both in and outside of the country’s borders. He is the director of the A.S.I.L.I. Collective, a research group whose work focuses broadly on addressing the mental health consequences of structural anti-Blackness through the lens of Black liberation psychology.