How Black Girl Biohacking approaches evidence, cultural context, health information, language and editorial judgment.
Read the standards
Black Girl Biohacking brings research, cultural knowledge, lived experience and editorial judgment into the same frame. Each form of knowledge carries its own strengths, limits and responsibilities.
These standards guide how BGB selects sources, describes evidence, writes about Black women and maintains published work over time.
The editorial framework
Black women begin the conversation. Coverage reflects variation across age, place, identity, body, access, family structure and lived experience. Race is treated as social and historical context rather than biological destiny.
Claims reflect the strength and type of available evidence. Association, mechanism, expert interpretation and causal findings are distinguished clearly. Emerging ideas are presented with their uncertainty intact.
Biology participates in a wider world. BGB considers culture, history, systems, environment, relationships, place, access and daily conditions when they shape the meaning of a health question.
Readers are treated as capable participants in their own care and inquiry. Language favors clarity over alarm, curiosity over prescription and fuller understanding over deficit-based narratives.
Editorial content offers education and context. Diagnosis, treatment and individualized medical decisions remain with readers and qualified members of their care teams. Safety considerations are included where they materially affect understanding.
Sources, authorship, expert credentials, relevant commercial relationships and material limitations are disclosed in the form appropriate to the work. Product access never guarantees favorable coverage.
Research and recommendations develop. Substantive updates receive a review date, and meaningful errors are corrected with a clear note. Reader questions can surface areas that deserve another look.
How evidence is handled
BGB favors original research, public-health agencies, professional standards and expert sources with relevant subject knowledge. Study design, population, sample size, funding, limitations, date and relationship to the wider evidence base inform how a source is used.
Lived experience can identify patterns, questions and consequences that formal research has overlooked. It is presented as lived knowledge and placed beside research with care.
Corrections + questions
Questions about sourcing, framing or accuracy are welcome. Include the page title, the passage in question and any supporting source when available.