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Somatic Abolitionism: Understanding Racialized Trauma Through the Body with Resmaa Menakem

Reimagining Love

CHAPTER

White Body Supre - Racism and Race

When i talk about race ism, i'm talking about the supreme standard by which the white body deems. If you don't understand that, everything else about these structures will confuse you. And so for me, this idea of white body supremacy, d e ilike like when you say diversity. You have to start were the premise first, and then what you're saying is, i'm diversifying from that premise. But if you never say what the premise is, then all of a sudden you have discussions in d e i where people a talke about how races black people are, or how races, you know, brown people. That's a fundamental misunderstanding of the rm.

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