Book Club
Join us for a Synod-Wide Book Study over Zoom that Unity will be participating and bring a friend! We will be reading My Grandmother's Hands by Resmaa Menakem. This book study will be facilitated by Rev. Afi Dobbins-Mays, Assistant to the Bishop for Authentic Diversity & Leadership. The weight of oppression and racialized trauma is so heavy. Working with one another with grace and love, we can unpack. We can heal. We can reclaim our joy! We will meet on Mondays; May 5th - 19th (no book study on Memorial Day) and June 2nd - 16th at 6:00pm to 8:00pm over Zoom.
Here is the reading schedule for each session:
May: 5th, 12th, 19th [6pm - 8pm]
June: 2nd, 9th, 16th [6pm - 8pm]
About: “In this groundbreaking book, therapist Resmaa Menakem examines the damage caused by racism in America from the perspective of trauma and body-centered psychology. The body is where our instincts reside and where we fight, flee, or freeze, and it endures the trauma inflicted by the ills that plague society. Menakem argues this destruction will continue until Americans learn to heal the generational anguish of white supremacy, which is deeply embedded in all our bodies. Our collective agony doesn’t just affect African Americans. White Americans suffer their own secondary trauma as well. So do blue Americans—our police.
My Grandmother’s Hands is a call to action for all of us to recognize that racism is not only about the head, but about the body, and introduces an alternative view of what we can do to grow beyond our entrenched racialized divide.“
The Synod has a limited number of free books available for book study participants! Please call at 414-671-1212 during regular business hours (Monday - Thursday, 8 am - 4:30 pm) to arrange a time to pick a copy up from our office. Free copies of the book are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Contact Pr. Afi Dobbins-Mays at [email protected] . You can also purchase a copy of the book yourself or rent from the library.
Here is the reading schedule for each session:
May: 5th, 12th, 19th [6pm - 8pm]
June: 2nd, 9th, 16th [6pm - 8pm]
About: “In this groundbreaking book, therapist Resmaa Menakem examines the damage caused by racism in America from the perspective of trauma and body-centered psychology. The body is where our instincts reside and where we fight, flee, or freeze, and it endures the trauma inflicted by the ills that plague society. Menakem argues this destruction will continue until Americans learn to heal the generational anguish of white supremacy, which is deeply embedded in all our bodies. Our collective agony doesn’t just affect African Americans. White Americans suffer their own secondary trauma as well. So do blue Americans—our police.
My Grandmother’s Hands is a call to action for all of us to recognize that racism is not only about the head, but about the body, and introduces an alternative view of what we can do to grow beyond our entrenched racialized divide.“
The Synod has a limited number of free books available for book study participants! Please call at 414-671-1212 during regular business hours (Monday - Thursday, 8 am - 4:30 pm) to arrange a time to pick a copy up from our office. Free copies of the book are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Contact Pr. Afi Dobbins-Mays at [email protected] . You can also purchase a copy of the book yourself or rent from the library.
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