Journaling as Resistance is a series of workshops that explore the intersections of internal accountability, decolonial repair, and global solidarity through journaling and somatic practices.
Journaling as Resistance #1 will delve into these themes through an enactment-conversation (listening to excerpts) between Alexis Pauline Gumbs’ Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Animals’ and Audre Lorde’s Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power. Drawing from Lorde’s call to reclaim the erotic as a source of deep knowing and radical transformation, and the meditations Gumbs offers in her book, we will explore the possibility of diving into journaling supported by somatic practices—excavating wisdom from our access to listening.
Together, we will drop into our bodies and breath, listen, map, journal, and engage with the material that arises—each at our own pace and inclination. Participants will be invited to deepen their awareness of their internal landscapes in relationship to the container offered and the collective presence of the group.
No prior experience with writing, journaling, or somatic practices is required*.
Somatic practices bridge personal healing with systemic transformation. When combined with journaling, they nourish self-reflection, help us embody the change we seek, support us through discomfort and growth, and enable us to engage with the world more authentically and compassionately. We hope these practices can serve as a vessel for resistance, healing, and connection.
We recognize that not everyone has the capacity for hearing or writing, and we want to honor that we are all in different places within a harmful, ableist, and predatory world. While we won’t have sign language available for this workshop, we hope to extend these offerings to a larger public in the future, ensuring greater accessibility through various journaling explorations and practices.