Four Articles on Somatic Abolitionism, Resmaa Manakem

Plantation Ethics

Source: Royalty-free stock illustration ID: 239399914 Idealized view of cotton plantation on the Mississippi River, with African American workers. Evocative of Southern antebellum era of pre-Civil War prosperity and slavery. Color lithograph, 1884 E By Everett Collection

Resmaa Menakem, MSW, LICSW,

Resmaa Menakem is a healer, therapist, trainer, and speaker, and the author of the New York Times bestseller My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Healing Our Hearts and Bodies. Learn more about him at resmaa.com.

Resmaa has served as director of counseling services for the Tubman Family Alliance, behavioral health director for African American Family Services in Minneapolis, a domestic violence counselor for Wilder Foundation, a certified Military and Family Life Consultant for the U.S. Armed Forces, a trauma consultant for the Minneapolis Public Schools, and as a Cultural Somatics consultant for the Minneapolis Police Department. He has managed the wellness and counseling services for civilians on 53 U.S. military bases in Afghanistan. Menakem has studied and trained at Peter Levine’s Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute, as well as with Dr. David Schnarch, author of Passionate Marriage. Menakem is a therapist in private practice, and he teaches workshops on cultural somatics for the general public as well as law enforcement. He has appeared on both The Oprah Winfrey Show and Dr. Phil on the topic of conflict and violence. He is the author of My Grandmother’s Hands.