Hood Lessons, Hard Love: I didn't break

Before she knew what trauma was, she was already surviving it. In Hood Lessons, Hard Love, Si si opens the door to her childhood on the west side of Baltimore where laughter and chaos lived in the same house, addiction had a smell, and stability was temporary. Raised by a mother battling her own demons and a father who was present in name more than action, Si si grew up reading rooms before she could read books. From sleeping in basements to calling ambulances during seizures, she learned e...