The readings this week – and maybe every week after this one – immediately relate to racism. In Hermon’s book Truth and Repair, she starts sharing the study of hysteria among women and even then reminds me of the intersectionalities of trauma when we add race to this equation; concerning The body keeps the score, by Kolk, it hunted me the idea of black people, especially black men, walking on the streets any time of the day, the brain “smoke detector” must be in constant alert. How can we find emotional balance in the continuous state of alert black bodies deal with daily? As the book brought by the American psychiatrists J. W. Appel and G. W. Beebe, “There is no such thing as ‘getting used to combat.’

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