Session 489: The Revelation of Dionne Daphne with Mara Brock Akil
Therapy For Black Girls | 11.11.2026 10:00
Mara Brock Akil spent 30 years building worlds on screen, and her debut novel asked her to go somewhere screenwriting never did. Mara joins Dr. Joy to talk about The Revelation of Dionne Daphne, the story she first tried to tell in the ’90s, and what it took to give a character her own experience with childhood sexual abuse. She also gets into the friendships that hold us until we can hold ourselves, the urgency that comes from facing your own mortality, and how compartmentalizing went from a survival skill to something she’s learning to put down.
