Araya

Therapist, columnist, social policy researcher | @hgse @penngse alum | @psychtoday @insidehighered @edu_post & more |

[Araya @arayabaker]

"My family never left the South for the Great Migration. I grew up 10 miles from a plantation.

On one side of my family, I am one generation removed from sharecropping. One of my parents was the first generation not to grow up in the fields."

[Jeff Weiss @Passionweiss]

A Roy Ayers vibraphone solo to cleanse your palette

[That guy. @Shutabug]

Happy Friday. ✨

[GHANA FACTS & HISTORY @GhanaianMuseum]

Rare 1967 footage showing how traditional drums in Ghana were used to send messages over short and long distances, and even perform traditional poetry.

[SAVE A SEAT FOR ME (Simon & Schuster, 2026) @NewBlackMan]

After beating prostate cancer twice, Montell Jordan has a message for Black men

The ‘This Is How We Do It’ singer is being honored in Atlanta by A²CES for turning his cancer journey into a mission to promote early detection.
https://t.co/7VrSUrFI6e

[Araya @arayabaker]

Thanks @ThePeriodDoctor for a deeply informative, liberating, and humanizing discussion!

Your voice and perspective are so needed 🫶🏾✨

[Grip Skylark 💕✨ @talleyberrybaby]

The boys be going into ministry when what they really yearn for is community theater. You don’t wanna go to seminary you wanna do Death of a Salesman and that’s ok. Stay up out them people’s bible school and do CATS.

[numbuh 4 @SPEEDRCER]

It is my duty to share the stories where queer Black boys are in them & their love interests are either other blk boys or non blk boys of color.

Happy pride.

[girly&wordly @Brieyonce]

Some Black gay books/stories published in 2026

[The Academy @TheAcademy]

They weren't looking for love but good thing it found them.

Film: RYE LANE (2023)

[Africa 🌍 @peter1013251]

An Aboriginal Of The North Solomon Islands, 1982

[Araya @arayabaker]

Here, we discuss the parallels between the early AIDS epidemic (1981-1995) and COVID.

[Araya @arayabaker]

Thanks to Tom Bruett, LMFT of the Queer Relationship Institute for inviting me to talk about HIV/AIDS advocacy and mixed-status/serodiscordant relationships.

Here, we discuss HIV criminalization laws.

The Gay Relationship Podcast is on YouTube.

[Texas Isaiah @TexasIsaiah]

I had the pleasure of photographing Betye Saar and her daughters for Harper’s Bazaar in 2021.

🕊️🥥

[💌 @notanarch1ve]

Betye Saar was an inspiration to so many. I'm heartbroken but glad that those who love me also know my love for her work. The little hand in the center of my quilt tattoo is my itty bitty piece of Betye to keep. A reference to the hand motifs throughout my fav Betye pieces. RIP💘

[𝐁𝐨𝐝𝐲'𝐨𝐟'𝐆𝐨𝐝💦 @Champagnediet1]

Fun fact:
If you’re only valued when you’re radiant, sensual and sweet but not when you’re sad, frustrated, or needing emotional depth then you’re being objectified and this goes for friendships too

[𖠽 @tarithecowrie]

my queerness is ancestral .
my queerness is abstract.
my queerness is absurd.
my queerness is action.

[Rated R&B @RatedRnB]

Meshell Ndegeocello's new album 'Synonym' arrives this fall. It features Chaka Khan, Lianne La Havas, Destin Conrad and more.
https://t.co/APZaOJZ0lD

[Stephanie Williams @itsstephwill]

Every time Danielle A. Scruggs searched for Black women film directors, she came up with the same few names. So she spent the next 11 years building one of the largest digital archives of Black women and nonbinary directors. My interview: https://t.co/MDchK309wV

[kemi @kemimarie]

i made an energy alignment flowchart :)