This is why the work matters 🙏🏾
This is why we gather 💚
Join me April 7 through 9 in Vancouver, BC at the Justice as Trauma Summit hosted by Myrna McCallum. Let's do this together ✊🏾
🔗 Register now: www.myrnamccallum.co/jat2026#Just... #JAT2026 #SomaticAbolitionism
Three days. Three Black men. Three continents.
One question underneath all of it:
Can a journey open new possibilities for Blackness?
I'll be there with Bayo and director Sienna McLean-LoGreco.
Free and open to everyone.
📅 April 3, 7-9pm
🌐 www.threeblackmen.com
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On April 3rd, I'll be with my brother Bayo Akomolafe for a dope and healing evening.
🕯️ Free and open to the public
📅 April 3, 7-9pm
📍 John B. Davis Auditorium, Campus Center, Macalester College (Grand & Snelling, MN)
🌐 www.threeblackmen.com
#ThreeBlackMen #SomaticAbolitionism
From my time in South Africa 🇿🇦
Black people, you are not crazy. What you feel is real. You are beautiful, and you are not defective.
This closing moment from my Weekend Breakfast conversation still holds true.
🐙 Connect with community: blackoctopussociety.com
#BlackHealing #SomaticAbolitionism
Reflecting on my time in South Africa 🇿🇦.
How has the white body being seen itself as the standard of humanness our collective healing?
🎥 Full episode: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Btl...
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#SomaticAbolitionism #RacialHealing #BlackOctopusSociety
What looks like a fight over names is really about how language lands in our bodies.
📖 The Quaking of America: centralrecoverypress.com/product/the-...
🌀 Black Octopus Society: blackoctopussociety.com
🔗 NPR: www.npr.org/sections/goa...
#QuakingOfAmerica #SomaticAbolitionism
Healing is both individual + communal.
“What our people really need is a redress of the thwarting + damage done to us—in our bodies, communities, and across generations.”
📖 Go deeper in The Quaking of America: centralrecoverypress.com/product/the-...
#QuakingOfAmerica #SomaticAbolitionism
When the work requires withstanding terror.
We can’t think our way through racial horror—our bodies must be conditioned to hold steady.
📖 The Quaking of America is a guide for this moment: bit.ly/4eXSq3N
#QuakingOfAmerica #SomaticAbolitionism
Long live Black bookstores, Black authors, and Black literature.
Sign up. Support your local. Let’s own our stories.
🖤https://www.nab2.org/membership
#NAB2 #BlackBookstores #QuakingOfAmerica #BlackLiterature #SomaticAbolitionism #SupportBlackBusiness
Communal love means spotlighting real, body-based justice work.
Today’s light: @novareid.bsky.social's The Good Ally. Not just a guide—a reckoning.
“Black Women Are Divine” lives in the bones.
🌊 blackoctopussociety.com
#ResmaaRecommends #SomaticAbolitionism #TheGoodAlly
For the movement-builders:
The Revolution Will Not Be Funded by INCITE! exposes the nonprofit industrial complex with clarity and care.
If you’re dreaming beyond grant cycles, come through.
🌊 blackoctopussociety.com
#ResmaaRecommends #SomaticAbolitionism #INCITE
Promote each other. Say “I love you.” Build glue.
It’s what they can’t control.
At Black Octopus Society, we practice care like it’s strategy.
🖤 blackoctopussociety.com
#RestIsResistance #BlackOctopusSociety #SomaticAbolitionism
Juneteenth is more than celebration—it’s a return to the body.
At Black Octopus Society, we practice freedom that lives in the nervous system.
Let joy be your ritual.🖤
➡️ blackoctopussociety.com
#Juneteenth #BlackOctopusSociety #SomaticAbolitionism #WeStillBreathe #FreedomInTheBody
Shouting out Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates.
This book is breath and bone—truth told to the body.
Story as somatic practice. 🖤
Reflections like this live inside the Black Octopus Society:
➡️ blackoctopussociety.com
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We’ve been resharing the posts y’all tag me in—and I’m moved every time.
Trauma handed down becomes culture when we don’t name it.
The work is to re-contextualize and remember.
Gratitude to @drlauravalentina for this one.
More at blackoctopussociety.com 🌊
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🖤 "The most revolutionary thing on this planet is a Black woman that does nothing."
Grateful to @blackgirlburnout for the conversation on rest as refusal and reclamation.
Listen to Ep. 412.
blackoctopussociety.com 🌊🖤
#RadicalRest #SomaticAbolitionism
www.instagram.com/reel/DJEthZU...
🎙️This episode of Audio Nuggets is a breath and a blaze—where tenderness meets truth, and liberation walks with us.
Spotify:
open.spotify.com/episode/5oEx...
🖤 To learn more about my work and the Black Octopus Society, visit resmaa.com and blackoctopussociety.com.
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Over the past few days, we’ve shared 11 somatic affirmations—crafted not just for inspiration, but for embodied survival.
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This affirmation isn’t about fixing anything. It’s about softening. Just enough to let the healing move through.
What would it feel like to offer those places some breath, some kindness?
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#SomaticAbolitionism #BlackOctopusSociety #EmbodiedLiberation #RestAndRepair
These affirmations are here to remind your body that it doesn’t have to carry it all. That there’s power in feeling—and also in giving yourself permission not to.
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#SomaticAbolitionism
✨ We’re just days away from the start of Foundations in Embodied Somatic Abolitionism (FESA)—a transformative course designed exclusively for Black, Indigenous, and other Bodies of Culture.
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#BodiesOfCulture #SomaticAbolitionism
✨ We’re just days away from the start of Foundations in Embodied Somatic Abolitionism (FESA)—a transformative course designed exclusively for White and White-Passing Bodies.
Spaces are limited—secure your spot!
👉 Register here: blackoctopussociety.com/workshops-in...
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🌟 Foundations in Embodied Somatic Abolitionism (FESA) 🌟
Join Dr. Resmaa Menakem and Jennifer-Lee Koble this January for a transformative journey into healing racialized trauma.
🗓 Dates: January 4-9, 2025
👉 Register now: tinyurl.com/ykkb6pnn
#SomaticAbolitionism #TraumaHealing #FESA
