About this episode
Alethia shares her experiences with internal racism and the impact of a DNA test on her understanding of her family's history.
Harmful Content Warning: This episode contains raw language including racial slurs, as well as discussions of domestic violence and systemic trauma. Alethia joins me to talk about a childhood defined by internal racism and the messy reality of growing up in a toxic home. We dive into the moment her world shifted when a DNA test completely dismantled her family’s origin story, replacing it with a hidden history she never saw coming. It’s an honest, sometimes uncomfortable look at the shame tha...
People in this episode
Host: Lily Wood
Guest: Alethia
Topics covered
- internal racism
- domestic violence
- systemic trauma
- family history
- identity
Keywords
- racism
- domestic violence
- DNA test
- family origin
- toxic home
- systemic trauma
- identity
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