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The Quiet Casualties of the Movement for Black Lives

By John Eligon — 2018

There is a quieter reality of activism: the mental and emotional hardship of the work, and the resulting stress and depression that sometimes make it difficult to even get out of bed. Self-care makes a difference.

Read on www.nytimes.com

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Opening Up by Writing It Down, Third Edition: How Expressive Writing Improves Health and Eases Emotional Pain

Expressing painful emotions is hard--yet it can actually improve our mental and physical health. This lucid, compassionate book has introduced tens of thousands of readers to expressive writing, a simple yet powerful self-help technique grounded in scientific research. Leading experts James W.

James W. Pennebaker, Joshua M. Smyth

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Afro-Nostalgia: Feeling Good in Contemporary Black Culture

The past as a building block of a more affirming and hopeful future As early as the eighteenth century, white Americans and Europeans believed that people of African descent could not experience nostalgia.

Badia Ahad-Legardy

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Art as Activism: Creating Performances that Move the Public | Diana Ocholla

Dancer and communicator Diana Ocholla describes the process behind "Rise", a performance honoring and making space for women and responding to gender-based violence in South Africa. The performance was held in 2019 in Muizenberg in Cape Town, South Africa as a part of Project Ripple.

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SFF21: Cinema, Poetry, and Healing in Land-Based Activism

Poetry and conversations inspired by land based activism and media creation, from Mauna Kea, Turtle Island, and Micronesia. Indigenous filmmakers, poets, and activists address healing from colonization through various forms of cultural practice.

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Art + Activism = Artivism: Art can Dismantle Hate

A short documentary discussing how art forms within activism can dismantle hate and create changes in the society we live in.

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The Art of Impossible : A Peak Performance Primer

Bestselling author and peak performance expert Steven Kotler decodes the secrets of those elite performers—athletes, artists, scientists, CEOs and more—who have changed our definition of the possible, teaching us how we too can stretch far beyond our capabilities, making impossible dreams much more...

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The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song

In this tender and expansive reckoning with the meaning of the Black Church in America, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. takes us on a journey spanning more than five centuries.

Henry Louis Gates Jr.

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Does Creativity Decline with Age?

Research has found there are two fundamentally different approaches to creativity and innovation as it relates to your age.

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African American Artist Illustrates the Power of Black Women | NowThis

Artist Jamilla Okubo is using her craft to illustrate the power of Black women. Raised in Washington DC, Jamilla Okubo uses her art to give a positive visual representation of Black women. Okubo is vocal about empowering women because of her upbringing.

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Healing Trauma with Guided Drawing: A Sensorimotor Art Therapy Approach to Bilateral Body Mapping

While art therapy traditionally focuses on therapeutic image-making and the cognitive or symbolic interpretation of these creations, Cornelia Elbrecht instructs readers how to facilitate the body-focused approach of guided drawing.

Cornelia Elbrecht

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