Jeremy Friedman Healing and Bodywork

When women tell you about their embodied experiences, believe them. #feministhealing

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That old but tenacious westward push for settlement, to gather gold, to reap the lingering promises of whiteness in the new world, to stake one's claim to land ...and place in tight times, to flatten the wilds and build oneself a home, lives on today as the Euro-American promise of whiteness. Not just in the Global North but in the South, where the imperative to catch up with the West is the underlying governing principle. The terms of that modern contract did not anticipate the agency of the land. It had no place for roving spirits and lurking ancestors; it had no room for viruses as wide as economies, as high as the heavens, and as resilient as hell; it had no sunset clause for animated climates. That contract is broken and there is no place to go. No marching forward. No credible promise of stability down the road. Now is the time to practice being in exile, to feel the textures of hopelessness, and to treat our many griefs and traumas as allies in our sense-making pilgrimages. Perhaps the cartography of exile offers senses, capacities, wisdoms and gestures that the promise of whiteness never could. Perhaps we might be afforded an opportunity to compost the intergenerational trauma of never arriving. Perhaps we might know ourselves anew in this new and ancient country. Bayo Akomolafe

I need all of these reminders, cyclically but frequently. How bout y'all?

Good questions.