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He&#8217;s the author of the beautiful and inspiring book,<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> My Grandmother&#8217;s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this episode of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Insights at the Edge, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tami Simon and Resmaa Menakem discuss racism from the perspectives of trauma and body-centered psychology. Resmaa unpacks some of the language he&#8217;s introduced into our vocabulary around racism\u2014including &#8220;white-body supremacy&#8221; and &#8220;somatic abolitionism&#8221;\u2014helping listeners to deepen their understanding of the structural and philosophical underpinnings of racism in the Western world. They also discuss the ways our bodies metabolize our experiences around racism, and the importance of finding healing in community. 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