The Stories from My Grandmother’s Hands

InThe Stories from My Grandmother’s Hands, children (ages three to eight) and caregivers will experience the beauty of the connection between generations. This beautifully illustrated book features different pigmentations, gender breadth, and ableness within the Black diaspora.

As children and their caregivers readThe Stories from My Grandmother’s Hands,theywill learn to value the gifts of their caregivers and grandmothers, and how they teach them to recognize energies in their own bodies, through cultural somatic practices. It is an interactive experience to be shared between generations. By reading these simple practices together, children learn that they and their people are not defective, and that things happened to their people before they got here.The Stories from MyGrandmother’s Handsis a toy box to help children create joy and manage the energetics of white-body supremacy.

Resmaa Menakemis a healer, a longtime therapist, and a licensed clinical social worker who specializes in the healing of racialized trauma. He is also the founder of the Cultural Somatics Institute, a cultural trauma navigator, and a communal provocateur and coach. Resmaa is best known as the author of theNew York TimesbestsellerMy Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies, and as the originator and key advocate of Somatic Abolitionism, an embodied antiracist practice of living and culture building. www.resmaa.com.

T. Mychael Rambois a regional Emmy Award-winning actor, vocalist, arts educator, and community organizer. He has made an indelible mark in the Twin Cities, performing principal roles at such theaters as Penumbra, the Guthrie, the Ordway, Illusion Theatre, Mixed Blood, Park Square Theatre, Children’s Theatre and Minnesota Opera, to name but a few. Nationally and internationally, his stage credits include Carnegie Hall and performances abroad in Africa, Europe, and South America. He has appeared in local and national television commercials, feature films, HBO mini-series, and other television programming. T. Mychael is an accomplished residency artist and an affiliate professor in the College of Liberal Arts, Theatre Arts and Dance at the University of Minnesota.

• Publisher:Central Recovery Press
• Publish Date: September 24, 2024
• Pages: 48
• Dimensions: 11.2 X 11.2 X 0.4 inches | 1.55 pounds
• Language: English
• Type: Hardcover
• EAN/UPC: 9781949481945
• BISAC Categories: Prejudice, Ethnopsychology, Family History & Genealogy (See Also Reference – Genealogy & Heraldry)