Week 3 - My Grandmother's Hands Black History Month Book Club
Week 3 of this year’s Book Club!
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Week 3 Reading Breakdown
February 15th-21st: Chapter 13- Chapter 18
68 Physical Pages.
2 hours and 32 audio minutes.
Week 3 Discussion Questions
What does Trauma Retention mean to you?
Which body exercise helped you the most?
What are some ways you express trauma retention?
Favorite quote from this week's reading?
Anything else you'd like to share?
Some of my favorite quotes from this week.
"When you heal a soul wound, you heal the people who came before you. You heal their presence in your life, in your memory, and in the expression of your DNA." -Resmaa Menakem, 2015, p. 179
"Trauma is never a personal failure, nor the results of someone's weakness, nor a limitation, nor a defect. It is a normal reaction to abnormal conditions and circumstances." -Resmaa Menakem, 2015, p. 205
"This sense of danger does not come out of nowhere. But it also doesn't come from Black bodies- even though to white bodies it feels like it does. It comes from ideas and images that were created, perpetuated, and institutionalized over hundreds of years." -Resmaa Menakem, 2015, p. 206
"As a police officer, you need to bring the best of yourself to your job at all times. Most of the time that means following your training. But sometimes it means being better than your training. You have an obligation to treat every human being you encounter as a human being. You do not have a free pass to needlessly harm anyone. -Resmaa Menakem, 2015, p. 223
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