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A review by candelibri
My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem
slow-paced
3.0
I don’t want to completely discount this because there is much good to be found, especially when it comes to self work and body settling. (Part 1 and 2 specifically)
AND YET.
How does someone who so repeatedly states the objective over and over COMPLETELY MISS THE PLOT. The copaganda is STIFLING. It is littered throughout the pages and has chapters dedicated to it. Yet in the same paragraph the author will be advising activists how to (god help me) protect themselves from violence while protesting, learning CPR and also tell white people to get to work dismantling white supremacy by reading such freedom giants as -checks notes- Robin DiAngelo Tim Wise and Peggy McIntosh.
Are you joking me. THOSE are the first three names??
Like I said - there is a lot of good to be found in the Body Work sections in the first two parts. Especially if you take the time to work through them.
But dear LORD save yourself the agida and skip part 3.
AND YET.
How does someone who so repeatedly states the objective over and over COMPLETELY MISS THE PLOT. The copaganda is STIFLING. It is littered throughout the pages and has chapters dedicated to it. Yet in the same paragraph the author will be advising activists how to (god help me) protect themselves from violence while protesting, learning CPR and also tell white people to get to work dismantling white supremacy by reading such freedom giants as -checks notes- Robin DiAngelo Tim Wise and Peggy McIntosh.
Are you joking me. THOSE are the first three names??
Like I said - there is a lot of good to be found in the Body Work sections in the first two parts. Especially if you take the time to work through them.
But dear LORD save yourself the agida and skip part 3.