Somatic Abolitionism: Understanding Racialized Trauma Through the Body with Resmaa Menakem
Reimagining Love
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I've Read My Grandmother's Hands
I've worked with somatic people who talk about the somatic pieces, but the vive of the way that they work with it is all cognition. Even in the somatic fields, you're having people genuflec to cognition,. Is its. And that's how this stuff gets, especially inte racial contexts, that's how whiteness ends up getting re centred. We end up thinking we're doing all this beautiful work, but we actually using the same tools, right that have created this bottle neck in the first place. It takes an average nine a months to read my book the first time. I'm still reading my book. There are pieces where i pick it
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