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An Emotional TikTok Reveals How Black Women Experience Touch Starvation

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In a now-viral TikTok, 33-year-old Mayte Lisbeth gets vulnerable about how a recent long-term lack of affectionate touch has affected her psyche. The video’s caption — “It’s been five years of touch starvation. I’ll probably have some more of it. I’m not handling it well” — is telling in itself, but the emotional recording reveals so much in the context of the isolation of Black women in America.

“I feel like I’m dying … I feel like if I were to get the kind of hug that I fucking really want, I would crumble into pieces,” Mayte said during a poignant, nearly three-minute post in which she explains how difficult it is for her not to receive the affectionate touch her body and mind desperately crave.

@mayte.lisbeth

Its been five years of touch starvation. I’ll probably have some more years of it. I’m not handling this well.

♬ original sound – Mayte Lisbeth

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