By Lauren Daniels When a nation grinds to a halt, it is a sign of a profound social contract breach. A national shutdown is the body politic in profound pain; a collective shout into a void, demanding to be heard. The demands are for economic justice, for safety, and for a state that is responsive to its people. At the very heart of this cry for justice is the systemic war against women. We march against gender-based violence, demanding accountability for the femicide and abu

Guilaine Kinouani (2021, Ebury Press) Kinouani is a UK-based radical and critical psychologist, therapist, equality consultant, and founder of Race Reflections. Living While Black is a particularly valuable book because it draws on her clinical, academic, and lived experience to explore racial healing. The book provides a detailed overview of the psychological and embodied harm caused by racism, racialisation and racial trauma and responds to the question of what racial heali

In Healing Racial Trauma: The Road to Resilience, Sheila Wise Rowe examines the pervasive and layered impact of racism on target groups. She frames it as both a personal and collective wound. She describes racial trauma as the ongoing accumulation of physical, emotional, and psychological stress caused by repeated exposure to racial incidents—whether direct, systemic, or historical. Takeaways Racial trauma is historical, repetitive, cumulative, personal, transgenerational, an

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