book review: my grandmother's hands

My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts by Resmaa Menakem

My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts by Resmaa Menakem

What are the main ideas?

If I implemented one idea from this book right now, which one would it be?

anti-racism work is somatic before anything else. we need to create opportunities for people’s actual bodies to learn how to have non-traumatic responses to bodies that they have lizard brain reactions to. those reactions that are based in trauma, are not helpful because they are knee-jerk and not intentional or conscious.

How would I describe the book to a friend?

this is a theoretical guide book and instruction manual for how to actually undo white(-body) supremacy.


reminder: book review structure

words / writing / post-processing
362w / 12min / 8min