My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies, by Resmaa Menakem
Menaken encourages us to “stop trying to address white supremacy through dialog. Don’t expect to change the world by teaching tolerance. Forget about changing attitudes. They all miss the mark. Racism is not only about the head. It’s also about the body. The body is where we live. It’s where we fear, hope, and react; where we constrict and relax; and where we fight, flee, or freeze.”
Resmaa Menakem is a thought leader in the realitively new field of cultural somatics. I understand cultural somatics, or sometimes cultural somatic therapy, as the work of facilitating co-healing between individual and collective bodies (somas).
In the above YouTube video Philippe SHOCK Matthews, interviews Menakem, and down below is another interview by Krista Tippett.
I highly recommend this book! My Grandmother’s Hands is mindblowing – or in this case – body opening.
Peace, dwight
