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Vincent Mousseau

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Doctorant et travailleur social basé à Tiohtià:ke (Montréal). Profitant d'un mode de vie à l'abri des algorithmes manipulateurs des géants du web.

PhD student and social worker based in Tiohtià:ke (Montréal). Trying to live a life less controlled by the algorithmic manipulation of the tech giants.

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Tarana Burke, Brené Brown: You Are Your Best Thing (Paperback) No rating

It’s important to name that this task of healing sits against a political backdrop, and that backdrop does not allow us to simply individualize healing or imagine that it could ever be an apolitical endeavor. For Black people, many of the tools and technologies used by our ancestors to heal have been taken or suppressed. And the extent of the traumas we have experienced has been constant and collective, overwhelming our efforts and our resources to address. In many ways, the moment in which we find ourselves is calling for each and all of us to acknowledge and address the existence of Black pain and trauma, finally and with consequence. Each death and each riot activates another memory of another life lost without justice or reason; this is how trauma unhealed haunts and accumulates, reemerging and reanimating the body. It does not disappear. The study of trauma has been itself a way to name human pain that lingers and lives on after rupture, especially in the individual, but increasingly also in the collective. We understand more now about how trauma winds and warps, inhabiting bodies, permeating relationships, and shaping lineages.

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Tarana Burke, Brené Brown: You Are Your Best Thing (Paperback) No rating

I am magic, cocoa powder, shards of glass and shrapnel, and the deepest parts of my grandmothers' imaginations. I am savory and sweet: salt, sugar, and lime, possessing the gentleness of the brightest lilies and the strength and temerity of the most destructive storms.

Most important, I am worthy. And that was the critical shift.

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Tarana Burke, Brené Brown: You Are Your Best Thing (Paperback) No rating

I embraced joy as my birthright. Radical Black Joy is inherent as a human need and not some special trinket you get after you rise high enough on the socioeconomic ladder or unlock some special level of desirability or accomplishment. I decided I would claim and manifest every fucking thing someone told me I couldn't do-my birth mama, these raggedy niggas who used my body as practice, my baby daddies, the friends who kept me around to feel better about themselves, and the overall society that inundates us from birth with the message that certain folks are more deserving and valuable based on their bodies, complexion, race, gender expression, physical and mental capabilities, educational levels, and whatever other fuck shit is just arbitrarily made up and pushed into our minds and down our throats.

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Tarana Burke, Brené Brown: You Are Your Best Thing (Paperback) No rating

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Tarana Burke, Brené Brown: You Are Your Best Thing (Paperback) No rating

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Tarana Burke, Brené Brown: You Are Your Best Thing (Paperback) No rating

Content warning Thoughts on introduction and first chapter