Decolonization and Embodiment
My Grandmother’s Hands by Resmaa Menakem
Focuses on healing racialized trauma through somatic abolitionism. Centers on how white-body supremacy and generational trauma live in the body and how we might metabolize them.
Image source: Seminary Co-op Bookstores event page for Resmaa Menakem — “My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies”.
The Nap Ministry– Tricia Hersey
Explores rest as resistance and a portal for reclaiming divinity outside of grind culture and white Christian supremacy.
Photo by Charlie Watts Photography. It is part of a photography project curated by Tricia Hersey, founder of The Nap Ministry and the photographer.
Linda Thai’s Somatic Healing Work
Focuses on intergenerational trauma and nervous system regulation. She speaks about decolonizing how we think about healing, therapy, and trauma through an embodied Southeast Asian lens.