Racism isn’t just an idea, and it’s not something we can work through simply by thinking about it. Systems of oppression play out through our bodies, our feelings, and our actions, in a visceral way. Even if we think we don’t identify with racism, it’s baked into our culture, it’s in the air we breathe, it’s programmed into our society and our media. It’s in our bodies on a cellular level.
And it’s at the level of our bodies where we need to begin unraveling it.
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