Abstract

COVID-19 has revealed underlying social inequities that disproportionately impact Black communities. This commentary offers three different reflections by creative arts therapists on this critical moment of widespread protest, organizing and demands for justice led by Black activists worldwide.

Highlights

  • We write this commentary as co-editors of the forthcoming special multidisciplinary issue of Voices on Black aesthetics and the arts therapies

  • In March, the apparent toll of the coronavirus pandemic on Black communities informed our decision to request the delay of our special issue

  • It is the horrifying fact that unjust Black death in the U.S is so recurrent and underreported that even the names of those that are missing from our list could not contain the immenseness of our loss. We offer this commentary in the interim of our special issue to underscore the basic and foundational realities of racism that must clearly be reemphasized here as this moment of growing white allyship reveals that there are many who have yet to learn them

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Introduction

Three Black Women’s Reflections on COVID-19 and Creative Arts Therapies: and We write this commentary as co-editors of the forthcoming special multidisciplinary issue of Voices on Black aesthetics and the arts therapies. As we write these few names, we recognize that there are far more people left unnamed whose deaths are at the intersections of racialized violence.

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