Liberated to the bone Histories, bodies, futures
Book - 2022
Liberated to the Bone addresses the intersections between healing our physical bodies and healing our social relations, which are shaped by violence. For Susan Raffo, this violence is rooted in the two original wounds: Indigenous disappearance and anti-Black racism. Discussions around the land, intergenerational trauma, social justice, and organizing are all relevant to our bodies. By showing how these approaches are intricately connected--physically and emotionally--Raffo interrupts the traumatic binaries of the political and spiritual, the physical and intellectual, and healing and organizing. --from page [4] of cover.
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Chico, CA :
AK Press
2022.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Item Description
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Physical Description
- xii, 235 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- ISBN
- 9781849354653
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Setting the Conversation
- It Starts with the Land
- What I Mean when I Say "Healing Justice"
- How We Talk about Bodies Matters
- Dealing with the Original Wounds
- Why Learning Anatomy Matters
- Stopping the Violence
- Lessons from the Body: To Protect or to Grow
- What Happens to the Body When It Hates and Why It Is So Pleasurable
- The Overwhelming Arc of Violence
- Embodying Impact
- Helping White Men Lose Control
- Lineages Healers Have to Contend with
- Agitation as a Part Of Healing ... and Organizing
- Coming into the Present Moment
- Time Traveling, Not Triggers
- Gravity, the First Reflex
- At Least Two Layers of Support: An Anatomy of Collective Care
- On Rest and Being Part of a Pack
- How Our Bodies Read the Air
- Please Don't Call Yourself an Empath
- Listening: Three or More Brains
- Creating the Conditions that Allow Deep Healing
- Campaign Versus Culture Change-In the Body and in the Collective
- We are Supposed to Protect the Children
- On Eldering, Attachment, Fear, and Control
- The Extent of Moral Injury
- Words like Sonar: Power and Communication
- Building Collective Liberation: A Protocol for Healers
- Aligning the Relational Field: On Retelling the Story of Craniosacral Therapy, for All Healing Practitioners
- Ending: So What Nest?
- Acknowledgments
- Notes