Post-Slavery Syndrome: Exploring The Clinical Impact Of The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
Black Presence, White Fragility: The Nature of Wake Work for Therapeutic Practitioners
Taylor and Downes bring their explorations around black presence and white fragility via their engagement with the works of Christina Sharpe, In the Wake: On Blackness and Being and Robin DiAngelo’s White Fragility: Why it’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism. They have been in dialogue for 19 years about these realities and are not done. Through the use of Sharpe’s notion of wake work (taking care in the ongoing wake), the wake being the afterlife of slavery and all its ramifications, they share their practices and thinking about the nature of wake work for therapeutic practitioners this work addresses black presence and white fragility.
Fantastic presentation–honest, direct, and opened so many doors to new thinking. I especially enjoyed the discussion about (and example of) dialoging from a conscious space, with clients, friends, and all humans, so that we can sit in the awkwardness and discomfort, and begin to break down the cliches and get to what really needs to be said and done so that healing can happen. Thanks for the book recommendations, too. Incredibly helpful and illuminating!