Equity + TIC Community of Practice: My Grandmother's Hands

"The body is where our instincts reside and where we fight, flee, or freeze, and it endures the trauma inflicted by the ills that plague society. In his groundbreaking book, My Grandmother's Hands, Resmaa Menakem argues that our US society's rapid downward spiral will continue until Americans learn to heal the generational anguish of white supremacy, which is deeply embedded in all our bodies. Our collective agony doesn’t just affect Black people and other people of color. White people suffer their own secondary trauma as well. 

My Grandmother’s Hands paves the way for a new, body-centered understanding of white supremacy—how it is literally in our blood and our nervous system. And it offers a practical, embodied, step-by-step healing process, which Menakem argues is utterly essential if we're serious about growing beyond our entrenched racialized divide."

-East Point Peace Academy