By Jade Magnus Ogunnaike ·September 28, 2021 Updated
Too often when Black women share their trauma, they are criticized rather than supported. Azriel Clary, 22-year-old survivor of R. Kelly, has received death threats following her estrangement from Kelly and decision to testify at his sex trafficking trial, asserting to have been “manipulated and brainwashed by him.”
Her decision to share her trauma required extreme courage, yet damaging stories have worked to invalidate her truth, entirely discredit
