🗳️ Reader Poll (Updated): Rank the Top 9 Essay Topics
Thank you to everyone who participated in yesterday’s poll. Many of you noted that the original 17-topic list was engaging but a bit long. I’ve refined it to nine key topics for a shorter, easier-to-complete version.
This updated poll takes less than a minute to finish. Your feedback will help shape which essays and discussions appear next.
👉 Click here to complete the updated 9-topic poll
(Poll closes November 10.)
🗂️ Topic Reference Guide
1. Race-Based Conversations — Do dialogues about race dismantle racism, or do they reinforce white supremacy?
2. Plantation Politics and the Mental Health Field — How historical power dynamics shape professional authority, visibility, and opportunity in therapy spaces.
3. Black Therapist Caricatures — Examining the stereotypes—and self-reinforcing images—of Black clinicians in media and professional circles.
4. Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) — A primer on NPD, with attention to clinical definitions and cultural interpretations.
5. Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) — A primer on BPD, exploring emotional regulation, attachment, and diagnostic framing.
6. The Racial Trauma Enterprise — How “healing” rhetoric can obscure structural harm and normalize coping over systemic change.
7. Emotions and Dehumanization — The role of affect, empathy, and sentimentality in sustaining anti-Black misandry and other forms of devaluation.
8. Clinical Supervision and Anti-Black Misandry — The paradox of clinical supervision that prescribes “repair” between supervisor and supervisee, even when repair requires Black male supervisors to accept dehumanization to maintain the relationship.
9. Anti-Intellectualism and Confirmation Bias — How digital culture and ideological sorting have eroded critical inquiry and nuanced thought.
💬 After You Vote
Once you’ve ranked the topics, feel free to share in the comments which one you placed highest — and why it resonated. Reader reflections often surface new questions and perspectives that shape future essays.
✍🏾 Author’s Note
These polls and essays invite readers to help shape future writing directions. Your participation helps guide which ideas are explored next.