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Have you ever identified all too well with Issa Dee or Molly on Insecure during their tense work scenes with white colleagues? Have you ever wondered what the effects of intergenerational racist trauma have on your life? Are you seeking an anti-racist and/or healing approach to justice? Or maybe you haven’t deeply pondered any of these questions but now that you’ve read them, you think you just might? Well, I’m happy to say that Grieving While Black: An Anti-racist Take on Oppression and Sorrow by Breeshia Wade, a professional caregiver and Buddhist practitioner, is just the book to aid you on this reflective journey.
If you’re like me, you’ve never considered grief outside of a major loss of life, in fact, you may try to detach yourself from lingering in emotions if you can help it. Though this barrier against feelings may serve some needs, it also prevents reconciliation and recognition of the acute pain beneath societal injustices. Grieving While Black: An Anti-racist Take on Oppression and Sorrow brings these conflicting feelings to light and guides you through understanding how daily interactions with racism and other oppressions are opportunities for reflection and healing. Make no mistake, this is not a book offering self-help tips in resolution to issues that you have very little control over. Instead, Wade shares her own experiences as a caregiver to illuminate the ways in which Black grief, much as the rest of the Black experience, has been criminalized to the point of medical professionals reacting to it with fear instead of empathy. By sharing these events, she reflects on the myriad ways in which oppression has robbed the oppressed of agency and most brutally, time. Time with ourselves, time outside of labor, time with dying loved ones, time stripped away from our own lives. In Wade’s estimation, racism is not only a distraction, it is a thief of life in a way that so many privileged people have no bearing of.
Read more here: https://blackgirlscreate.org/2021/03/the-plot-thickens-grieving-while-black/
If you’re like me, you’ve never considered grief outside of a major loss of life, in fact, you may try to detach yourself from lingering in emotions if you can help it. Though this barrier against feelings may serve some needs, it also prevents reconciliation and recognition of the acute pain beneath societal injustices. Grieving While Black: An Anti-racist Take on Oppression and Sorrow brings these conflicting feelings to light and guides you through understanding how daily interactions with racism and other oppressions are opportunities for reflection and healing. Make no mistake, this is not a book offering self-help tips in resolution to issues that you have very little control over. Instead, Wade shares her own experiences as a caregiver to illuminate the ways in which Black grief, much as the rest of the Black experience, has been criminalized to the point of medical professionals reacting to it with fear instead of empathy. By sharing these events, she reflects on the myriad ways in which oppression has robbed the oppressed of agency and most brutally, time. Time with ourselves, time outside of labor, time with dying loved ones, time stripped away from our own lives. In Wade’s estimation, racism is not only a distraction, it is a thief of life in a way that so many privileged people have no bearing of.
Read more here: https://blackgirlscreate.org/2021/03/the-plot-thickens-grieving-while-black/
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