If there is one thing that we as a collective are now finally understanding, it is that contact is medicine, it is nectar, it is healing. But in this pandemic, it has been turned into poison.
What can we do in the midst of this double bind? We do what we can—we zoom with our friends and beloveds. We dance with strangers on instagram. We cook with one another virtually. We applaud the health workers as they walk down the street to the hospitals. We kiss through the ether. And we listen to the sounds of the city expectantly, hearing the slow swell of footsteps and car noises emerging from the silence as if they were the caresses of a lover. We open up our perception to something else.

Feeling this something else is a visionary sense. It is where we can know at the core of our being that creativity is survival.

As a feminist, woman of color, and college teacher, I ask myself how can I relate, together with my students, with the image of George Floyd, which is at the […]

Please join us for two upcoming free webinars on trauma-informed pedagogy. The webinars each explore a different facet of tools and practices drawn from our program, Embodying Your Curriculum, which brings trauma […]

Webinar #3: August 6, 2020 9:30 am-11 am PST/12:30-2 pm EST Practical Applications of Trauma-informed Practices & Ask anything Register in advance for this meeting: (Everyone registered will receive a […]