Grayt Coutures this month we’re talking Suicide, PCOS, Pain, and Pilates
This month we’re tearing down the lies that keep Black women sick.
Grayt Coutures,
September is here, and it’s heavy. This month is Suicide Prevention Month, PCOS Awareness Month, and Pain Awareness Month. These aren’t hashtags for us. They’re the fault lines where Black women’s lives, minds, and futures are decided by people who don’t listen to us.
Here’s what you’ll read this month.
Free for everyone:
Are Black Women Allowed to Be Broken Before We Break?
“Suicide rates among young Black women are rising, but medicine keeps calling our cries for help ‘strength.’ This month we’re asking who gets to survive and why it’s not us.”
Who profits when PCOS steals our focus, mood, and memory, and they call it cosmetic?
PCOS is often characterized by weight, hair, and fertility issues. But it robs Black women of memory, focus, and mood. Who benefits from calling a neurological crisis a cosmetic one?”
From 1913 to 2025: Why Are Black Women Still Fighting a Lie About Our Pain?
“A century-old lie in medical textbooks taught doctors that Black women don’t feel pain. That lie still stalks exam rooms today, and it’s killing us.”
Pilates Could Rewire Black Women’s Brains and Cure Us, but That Would Be Too Much Like Right
“They want you in pain because they don’t work for you; they work for the FDA.”
Founders (paid members):
If Our Brains Shrink After Birth, Why Does Medicine Pretend It’s Just Hormones?
“Brain scans prove postpartum shrinkage is neurological. Yet suicides and depression in Black women are dismissed as ‘just hormones’ and excluded from maternal mortality counts.”
What would change if we treated PCOS as a brain–body traffic jam instead of ‘irregular periods’?
“Neuroendocrine chaos, insulin resistance, and inflammation collide in the brain. PCOS is a neurological crisis medicine that keeps being mislabelled, and Black women pay the highest price.”
If Pain Erases Gray Matter, Why Are Black Women Still Taught to Endure Instead of Being Treated?
“Chronic pain erodes the brain, but medicine still trains providers to tell Black women to endure it."
This deep dive exposes the neuroscience and the lie that has lasted over a century.”
Podcast debut
This month, I’m also launching The Psychology of It All. My new podcast is taking these stories off the page and into your ears. Science, history, truth. Raw and direct.
Founders will get first dibs on the Q&A tied to the launch.
Founders, mark your calendars: our private live Q&A will be on Friday, September 26th, at 7:00 PM. Bring your questions, your notes, and your voice. This is where we go deeper together.
How to support:
If you’re ready to step into the private room and fund this research, become a Founder (paid member) today.
If that’s not where you are yet, you can still support this work by purchasing Never Voluntary.
Every purchase fuels the fight: https://nevervoluntary.com.
This is Zsanine for REMIND Lab and the Grayt Coutures… Remember… they weren’t afraid to erase our stories. We can’t be scared to tell them.