My Grandmother’s Hands — A Classic

Resma Menakem’s: My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies — is simply a classic — a Must Read!

One can, perhaps, disagree with his splitting of American people in one way — having a third category besides “white” and “Black” with “Blue” (police, security and similar) — but he makes a forceful case for how we all are dealing or not dealing with our traumas — a most important perspective.

If you have a white body, there will be times when it will reflexively constrict in order to protect you from…