Embodied Activism

“Joining Rae’s invitation to embodied activism offers me a wide and pragmatic hope.”

—Staci K. Haines, PhD, author of The Politics of Trauma and cofounder of generative somatics

“At once accessible and deeply engaging, [this book] weaves Dr. Johnson’s personal experience and scholarship with the stories of community members, healing practitioners, and activists to show how knowing, working with, and radically loving our bodies is absolutely vital to the work of social justice.”

—Kai Cheng Thom, MSW, MSc, author of I Hope We Choose Love

“An accessible and dynamic framework for understanding that … for social action to be sustainable, it must include personal, courageous reckoning with the way in which oppression lives in our bodies and thus shapes our everyday interactions. In each chapter Johnson deftly makes the invisible visible and in doing so, opens a critically important pathway to decolonize our bodies so that our insides align with our outside actions to build a just world.” 

—Lisa Jo Epstein, PhD, executive and artistic director at Just Act

“Deeply situated within larger systemic justice work, this book offers accessible practices to reclaim, heal, and catalyze our particular body stories to more fully embody the work of social transformation. A “must-read” that will quickly become an important companion in our embodied work for liberation.”

—Beth Berila, PhD, author of Integrating Mindfulness into Anti-Oppression Pedagogy

“This wonderful, profoundly empowering, and highly accessible book is a must-read for anyone engaged in the work of liberation and social change, or anyone who has a body.”

—Nick Walker, PhD, author of Neuroqueer Heresies

“Rae Johnson has done it again! This timely, cutting-edge work … offers a blueprint for not only governing ourselves from a somatic, intrapersonal framework but also how to intentionally engage others in a way that sparks the senses—creating a symphonic, embodied experience that could potentially affect systems of oppression and injustice.” 

—Angela M. Grayson, PhD, president of the American Dance Therapy Association

“This book could not appear at a better time. Loud and highly combative voices commanding the public sphere make it difficult to think through our differences together in a respectful yet honest way. This book offers help in damping down the fires to gain access to fresh solutions.” 

 —Don Hanlon Johnson, PhD, author of Diverse Bodies, Diverse Practices

"Embodied Activism offers us an enlivening perspective on how we might create societal changes through full awakening of our own bodily self-awareness. This book gives us hope for the future, because it provides exceptional guidance and wisdom for our thoughtful self-reflection, giving us a radical new way of envisioning societal change."

 —Fanny Brewster, PhD, author of Racial Legacies 

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