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Unpacking the Embodied Plantation Backpack

By Resmaa Menakem — 2021

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.)

Read on www.psychologytoday.com

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The Extra Stigma of Mental Illness for African-Americans

Our culture has taught us that we do not have the privilege of being vulnerable like other communities.

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Dana Givens
2020
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Fariha Róisín Turns Personal Trauma into Narratives of Cultural Resistance

Document takes you inside Róisín’s home as she talks beauty, recovery, and navigating cultural shame.

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Meetra Javed
2020
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Transformance—What Can Happen When Shame Lifts

Sheila Rubin writes about transformance, a term used to describe “the force in the psyche that’s moving towards growth and expansion and transformation,” and the idea that healing is “not just an outcome but a process that exists within each person that emerges in conditions of safety.”

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Sheila Rubin
2018
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