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My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem
14 reviews
xfallenxnightx's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Police brutality, Colonisation, Slavery, Racial slurs, and Racism
galaxys's review against another edition
Minor: Police brutality
hmbrokaw's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Racism
Moderate: Police brutality
artemisskyla's review against another edition
Moderate: Fatphobia, Eating disorder, Racism, Police brutality, and Mental illness
katharina90's review against another edition
1.5
As a result, healing trauma has to include working with the body. Don't rely on only rationally processing trauma (talk therapy). Learn to recognize how trauma shows up in your body and how to regulate your nervous system.
If you process your trauma and protect others from it, e.g., your children, you can pass down resilience instead of trauma.
After the author laid out the above early on, the book started to resonate less and less. Mostly I just found it repetitive but it also contained some very weird takes and offputting statements, incl. fatphobic and police apologist/reformist nonsense.
We can't self-care our way out of systemically violent and racist policing. Officers who meditate, get massages and take bubble baths will not magically stop being agents of white supremacy and state violence. And referring to the murders of unarmed Black adults and children as "errors" is really not it.
Graphic: Racism, Slavery, Gun violence, Murder, Police brutality, and Violence
Moderate: Animal cruelty and Fatphobia
kelsee28's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Violence, Police brutality, Racism, and Gun violence
samudyatha's review against another edition
3.75
Graphic: Racism and Police brutality
fierymoon's review against another edition
Graphic: Police brutality and Racism
leweylibrary's review against another edition
4.25
Second, this book made me realize how much I absolutely just do not pay any attention to my body and how it reacts to things. Because of that and because of my other attention issues, the body exercises in this book were so weird and difficult for me. I just couldn't do them or take them seriously, even when I was really genuinely trying. It's like yoga, I'd always overthink it or ruin the mindfulness in one way or another. I'm sorry, but I just don't think I'll ever be able to literally see my ancestors and don't really have any desire to wash anyone's feet.
So! If you're like me, you might struggle too with that part of this book, but I'm sure many others will get a lot of value from these bits, so read this book! It's at least worth it for the discussions on how our bodies remember and react to trauma, generational body trauma, white body supremacy, white body fragility, and creating healing cultures. I also want to keep this book to refer back to some of the strategies for grounding and settling your body because I feel like those could be really useful for my socially anxious and non-confrontational self.
Graphic: Racism, Injury/Injury detail, Colonisation, Police brutality, Torture, Death, Violence, and Slavery
hankatcol's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Gun violence, Mental illness, Animal death, Police brutality, Racism, Violence, and Murder
Minor: Schizophrenia/Psychosis