By Resmaa Menakem — 2021
Many Black womxn experience themselves as fraudulent or substandard. It's a lie.
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CLEAR ALL
White masses, laced with anger and jealousy, armed with white supremacy, propaganda, and the powers afforded to them by the Jim Crow South, did carry out one of the worse incidents of racial violence in U.S. history.
There is a belief among some African-Americans that to defeat racism, they have to work harder, be smarter, be better.
Close to 11% of American adults with Hispanic ancestors don’t even identify as Hispanic or Latino.
If you have an African American body, welcome. I wrote this blog post—and the body practice at the end—especially for you. (Everyone else, welcome as well—but please skip the body practice.)
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Trauma therapist and author of My Grandmother's Hands talks honestly and directly about the historical and current traumatic impacts of racism in the U.S., and the necessity for us all to recognize this trauma, metabolize it, work through it, and grow up out of it.
Moments of calm, Jenée Johnson believes, are the foundation of emotional intelligence and its skills of resilience and compassion.