Resmaa
@resmaa
NY Times Best Selling Author. Racialized Trauma expert has appeared The Breakfast Club, Tha Gods Honest Truth, Oprah, Dr. Phil #somaticaliberation Resmaa.com
Big news!! 🎉 Mothership, written by me and Kristen Adele Calhoun, directed by Candis C. Jones. September 10 through October 4 at Penumbra Theatre. Get tickets 🎟️: penumbracenter.org/event/mothership Please share!! 🖤 #Mothership #PenumbraTheatre #ResmaaMenakem #TwinCities
Where we put our money and attention is nervous system work too. @baratunde put together a list of alternatives to platforms and companies that profit off harm. Watch it, take what's useful, notice what happens in your body when you imagine making the switch. #CollectiveCare #StayHuman
My job is to create the conditions to tend to what we already know, instead of acting like we don't. 📰 Read the full piece here: bit.ly/4vFGkTL Practice your way through. 🐙🔥 bit.ly/458oy0D #SomaticLiberation
For every American White woman who dies bringing life into this world, more than three Black women die doing the same thing. That is not negligence. That is policy by practice. Dr. Rachel Hardeman, in The Emancipator. Read it. 🔗 theemancipator.org/2026/07/02/i... #BlackMaternalHealth
I am a 2026 Bush Fellow. 🙏🏽 This recognition belongs to the collective body that built it. 🙌🏽 To the Bush Foundation, to the 29 fellow Fellows, and to everyone who has been part of building this, thank you! 🌱 www.bushfoundation.org/2026-bush-fe...
Zero Black male applicants. TSU + Meharry have a 7-year accelerated MD/DDS program with full-ride scholarship potential. Requirements: 3.5 GPA, 28 ACT. Pass this on. Contact: bmurrell@tnstate.edu | (615) 804-6125 lhodge@tnstate.edu | (615) 963-6949 Tell them Emmett Till Legacy Foundation sent you.
June is Stolen Children's Month. 🕯️ Racialized trauma is not simply an event from the past. It is a living force. And the family policing system is one of its clearest expressions. June 2 & 9: When They Stole Me, IG Live @ miningforgoldcommunity movementforfamilypower.org/stolen-childrens-month 🖤
The Privilege Institute and SPA are hosting the 2026 Equity Institute, June 16-18, and I am honored to be a featured speaker this year. The theme is "Know Better, Do Better." Register: www.spa.edu/about/equity-institute 🔗 🗓 June 16-18, 2026📍 St. Paul, Minnesota #EquityInstitute
Black mothers have held everything together. It's time we build systems that hold them. @dr.rhardeman's piece in Essence is essential reading. Black mothers deserve more than survival. www.essence.com/health-and-w... #BlackMaternalHealth #BlackMaternalHealthWeek #BlackMothers
Some books ask you to think differently. This one asks you to feel differently. Waking Up Alone by Nicole Wordlaw is not a research text. It's not theory. It's a prayer. www.amazon.com/Waking-Alone... #BlackWomenAuthors #SomaticLiberation
Tomorrow we gather 💚 Vancouver, BC. The Westin Bayshore. April 7th 🌿 See you there, family 🙏🏾 🔗 Register now: www.myrnamccallum.co/jat2026#Just... #JAT2026 #SomaticLiberation #RadicalHope #TomorrowWeGather #HealingJustice #TraumaInformed #CommunalHealing #Vancouver2026 #ResmaaM
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 #SomaticAbolitionism
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
Hey family 🙏🏾 I wanted to come to you directly. April 7th through the 9th, I'll be at the Justice as Trauma Summit, hosted by the incredible Myrna McCallum. This work is for all of us. I hope you'll join us there 💚 🔗 Register now: www.myrnamccallum.co/jat2026 #JusticeAsTrauma #SomaticLiberation
Liberation is not a costume you put on for the moment. Proximity to the struggle does not give you a pass. Words matter. History matters. Context matters. quakingofamerica.com 🧠🔥🖤 #TheQuakingOfAmerica #ResmaaMenakem #LiberationPractice #SomaticLiberation
Don’t get fooled by the marketing. An end to hostilities is not the same thing as liberation. Don’t confuse noise with transformation. Tend to what lives in your own body. Learn more at quakingofamerica.com 🔥🖤🌱 #TheQuakingOfAmerica #somaticLiberation
#communallove This video from @jina.with_a_j describes this powerful book that holds real people. We always fought back… even when nobody told us we could. www.kensingtonbooks.com/978149675914... #BlackHistory #BlackAuthors #CollectiveCare #SomaticLiberation
South Africa was the right place for this work. 🌍✊🏾 Apartheid in South Africa was one expression. Enslavement and Black codes in the U.S. were another. Colonization across the globe follows the same pattern. Different locations. Same architecture. @socialjusticeagency #SomaticLiberation
Healing is not magic. Healing is tending to the truth of this moment and learning how to use it as fuel for your liberation. 🫀 Deep gratitude to @nativelandpod for convening this space. Watch the full Minneapolis Town Hall here: bit.ly/4rhi60n #TheQuakingOfAmerica #SomaticLiberation
What if there are no “better angels”? What if this is all they got for us? Thank you @nativelandpod for making room for a conversation that doesn’t flinch. Watch the full town hall: bit.ly/4rhi60n More resources: bit.ly/4bqteDJ #StayHuman #SomaticLiberation #CollectiveCare #EmbodiedTruth
Healing is tending to what is happening around you and in your body and learning to use it as fuel for your liberation. 🔥⛽️ Grateful to @nativelandpod for holding the line of truth. Watch the full town hall here: bit.ly/4rhi60n Grounding practices + guidance: bit.ly/4bqteDJ #SomaticLiberation
We’re being asked right now: who are we going to be in the face of tyranny? That’s the healing. ⚠️🧭 Deep appreciation to @nativelandpod.bsky.social for convening courageous voices. Full video: bit.ly/4rhi60n Explore bit.ly/4bqteDJ for practices to help meet this moment. #SomaticLiberation
MN journalist Georgia Fort was arrested for filming and reporting. TODAY (CT) — Minneapolis 11:00 AM press conference 1:00 PM Free G rally 1:30 PM court hearing 📍 Federal Courthouse (downtown) Please share. #ProtectJournalists #FreeGeorgiaFort #PeoplePower #NoMoreSilence quakingofamerica.com
You get to be angry. And you get to figure out how you turn toward each other, as opposed to on each other. 🔥🖤 Follow @nativelandpod + watch the full town hall here: bit.ly/4rhi60n Visit bit.ly/4bqteDJ for practices to stay human in this moment. #TheQuakingOfAmerica #SomaticLiberation
Systems built on domination live first in the body. White body supremacy is conditioning, reflex, nervous systems under threat. Change must happen where the damage lives. The Quaking of America is a field guide for somatic liberation. Read it. Practice it. Share it. 🔗 quakingofamerica.com
It’s been tough. It’s going to get tougher. If you’re living in a visibly melanated body in this country and feeling it in your nervous system, you’re not imagining it. You’re not crazy. #TheQuakingOfAmerica centralrecoverypress.com/product/the-...
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
In South Africa I spoke about how trauma doesn’t just live in memory. It lives in the body. Somatic abolitionism means tending to the body so we can break the pattern for the generations that follow. 🎥 Full episode: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Btl... 🐙 Connect with community: blackoctopussociety.com
Jamaica has held so many of us. Now we give that care back. Support Valentino’s Dream Team as they rebuild after Hurricane Melissa. 💫 www.gofundme.com/f/rebuild-va... #ReciprocalCare #RebuildTogether