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

After the storm, the body looks for ground. Help Valentino and his team rebuild homes and safety after Hurricane Melissa. 🤎 Give here: www.gofundme.com/f/rebuild-va... #CareAsPractice #CommunityHealing

Hurricane Melissa destroyed the homes of Valentino Smith and the Dreamtime Villa team in Jamaica. This is not charity. It is reciprocity. 💚 Donate: www.gofundme.com/f/rebuild-va... #RebuildTogether #CollectiveCare

Reflecting on my time in South Africa 🇿🇦. How has the white body being seen itself as the standard of humanness our collective healing? 🎥 Full episode: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Btl... 🐙 Connect with community: blackoctopussociety.com #SomaticAbolitionism #RacialHealing #BlackOctopusSociety

The gnashing isn’t failure—it’s feedback. We’re in a 30-year practice. Train with us: resmaa.mn.co/invite Read: centralrecoverypress.com/product/the-... #BlackOctopusSociety #QuakingOfAmerica 🐙

This Thursday we gather. Three Black Men: A Journey into the Magical Otherwise is a conversation with Bayo Akomolafe, Orland Bishop & me on living, healing & acting as Black people in these times. 🎟️ townhallseattle.org/event/healin... #ThreeBlackMen #SeattleEvents

“You don’t get the glue without constriction.” The real work is staying through the squeeze. 🌊 Train: resmaa.mn.co/invite Read: centralrecoverypress.com/product/the-... #BlackOctopusSociety #QuakingOfAmerica 🐙

In 2 weeks: Three Black Men: A Journey into the Magical Otherwise at Town Hall Seattle—an evening on Black identity, ancestral connection + healing w/ Bayo Akomolafe + Orland Bishop. 🗓️ Oct 30 | 7:30 PM 🎟️ townhallseattle.org/event/healin... #ThreeBlackMen #HealingAndLiberation #SeattleEvents

“The sperm hasn’t hit the egg yet.” We’re still seeding—still learning to stay in the work when it gets messy. 🌊 Train with us: resmaa.mn.co/invite 📖 Read: centralrecoverypress.com/product/the-... #QuakingOfAmerica #BlackOctopusSociety 🐙

Been in the rhythm of this communal love lately Deante’ Kyle’s @deantekyle.bsky.social (Grits & Eggs Podcast) is a brilliant space for grounded reflection on racism, repair, and collective truth. It echoes the nervous-system work we’re building in Black Octopus Society. 🌊 blackoctopussociety.com

Lifting up #AvaDuVernay’s 13th today in this wave of #communallove. It’s more than a film—it’s a map. Inside Black Octopus Society, we do this same work in the body—tracking harm, interrupting patterns, building new futures. 🌊 blackoctopussociety.com

Grateful to have served as cultural consultant on Night Always Comes—a gripping new film now streaming on @netflix.com It asks hard questions about survival, safety, and home. Honored to support the team behind it. #NightAlwaysComes

Y'all did a great freaking job. The whole movie felt real, desperate, yet still somewhat hopeful. I was put in her shoes for one horrible night and could not help but root for her.

They called it a “multilateral lunch.” But the photo op came with a funeral. USAID dissolved. 14M deaths projected. This isn’t partnership—it’s abandonment. 📖 The Quaking of America: centralrecoverypress.com/product/the-... 🧠 blackoctopussociety.com #QuakingOfAmerica

Long live Black bookstores, Black authors, and Black literature. Sign up. Support your local. Let’s own our stories. 🖤https://www.nab2.org/membership #NAB2 #BlackBookstores #QuakingOfAmerica #BlackLiterature #SomaticAbolitionism #SupportBlackBusiness

Stop waiting for them to save us. Every time they ease up, we forget 500 years of brutality. Liberation starts when we build our own—our art, our care, our glue between each other. That’s the work we’re doing inside Black Octopus Society. 🌊 blackoctopussociety.com

Liberation isn’t real if it excludes. My freedom is bound up with Black trans lives, with sisters facing misogynoir, with everyone crushed by colonization, imperialism, and land theft. That’s the work we’re building inside Black Octopus Society. 🌊 blackoctopussociety.com

Anger is not the enemy. In the face of brutality, numbness is. If you can watch what’s happening in the world and feel nothing—you’re the problem. Join us in practicing something different: body-based justice, care, and community inside Black Octopus Society. 🌊http://BlackOctopusSociety.com

Healing is both individual + communal. “What our people really need is a redress of the thwarting + damage done to us—in our bodies, communities, and across generations.” 📖 Go deeper in The Quaking of America: centralrecoverypress.com/product/the-... #QuakingOfAmerica #SomaticAbolitionism

What looks like a fight over names is really about how language lands in our bodies. 📖 The Quaking of America: centralrecoverypress.com/product/the-... 🌀 Black Octopus Society: blackoctopussociety.com 🔗 NPR: www.npr.org/sections/goa... #QuakingOfAmerica #SomaticAbolitionism

We’re in a time that demands courage, connection, and clarity. Join us Oct 3–5 in Stellenbosch for the Global Anti-Racism Summit. Online tickets are 30% off: thesocialjusticeagency.org/checkout/ #TruthTraumaToll #GlobalAntiRacismSummit

The Global Anti-Racism Summit is coming Oct 3–5 in Stellenbosch, South Africa. 🌍 Online tickets are now 30% off—don’t miss this global conversation: thesocialjusticeagency.org/checkout/ #TruthTraumaToll #GlobalAntiRacismSummit

On Oct 30, I’ll be in Seattle with Bayo Akomolafe + Orland Bishop for Three Black Men: A Journey into the Magical Otherwise—an evening on Black identity, ancestral connection + healing. 📍 Town Hall Seattle | 7:30 PM 🎟️ lnkd.in/gf4G5DqU #ThreeBlackMen #HealingAndLiberation #SeattleEvents

“The sperm hasn’t hit the egg yet.” We’re still seeding—still learning to stay in the work when it gets messy. 🌊 Train with us: resmaa.mn.co/invite 📖 Read: centralrecoverypress.com/product/the-... #QuakingOfAmerica #BlackOctopusSociety 🐙

On Oct 30, I’ll be in Seattle with Bayo Akomolafe + Orland Bishop for Three Black Men: A Journey into the Magical Otherwise—an evening on Black identity, ancestral connection + healing. 📍 Town Hall Seattle | 7:30 PM 🎟️ lnkd.in/gf4G5DqU #ThreeBlackMen #HealingAndLiberation #SeattleEvents

Just a few days away. 🌍 The Global Anti-Racism Summit opens Oct 3 in Stellenbosch. 🎟️ Online tickets 30% off now: thesocialjusticeagency.org/checkout/ #TruthTraumaToll #GlobalAntiRacismSummit

This gathering is global. ✨ The Global Anti-Racism Summit (Oct 3–5) brings voices from Africa, the US, and beyond. 🎟️ 30% off online tickets: thesocialjusticeagency.org/checkout/ #TruthTraumaToll #GlobalAntiRacismSummit

We’re in a time that demands courage, connection, and clarity. Join us Oct 3–5 in Stellenbosch for the Global Anti-Racism Summit. Online tickets are 30% off: thesocialjusticeagency.org/checkout/ #TruthTraumaToll #GlobalAntiRacismSummit

The Global Anti-Racism Summit is coming Oct 3–5 in Stellenbosch, South Africa. 🌍 Online tickets are now 30% off—don’t miss this global conversation: thesocialjusticeagency.org/checkout/ #TruthTraumaToll #GlobalAntiRacismSummit

What looks like a fight over names is really about how language lands in our bodies. 📖 The Quaking of America: centralrecoverypress.com/product/the-... 🌀 Black Octopus Society: blackoctopussociety.com 🔗 NPR: www.npr.org/sections/goa... #QuakingOfAmerica #SomaticAbolitionism

Two weeks until the Global Anti-Racism Summit 2025. Honored to join leaders connecting South Africa’s legacy of racial healing with today’s global fight against systemic racism—toward dignity, justice, and embodied freedom. 🎟️ Tickets + info: thesocialjusticeagency.org/events/

Healing is both individual + communal. “What our people really need is a redress of the thwarting + damage done to us—in our bodies, communities, and across generations.” 📖 Go deeper in The Quaking of America: centralrecoverypress.com/product/the-... #QuakingOfAmerica #SomaticAbolitionism

The Global Anti-Racism Summit 2025 is a gathering of global voices rethinking how we confront systemic racism + heal. 🗓️ Oct 3–5 | Stellenbosch, Cape Town 🎟️ Register: thesocialjusticeagency.org/events/ #GlobalAntiRacismSummit #TruthTraumaToll

When the work requires withstanding terror. We can’t think our way through racial horror—our bodies must be conditioned to hold steady. 📖 The Quaking of America is a guide for this moment: bit.ly/4eXSq3N #QuakingOfAmerica #SomaticAbolitionism

This October, I’ll be in Stellenbosch for the Global Anti-Racism Summit. This summit brings together thought leaders from Africa, the US, and the UK to confront truth, trauma, and the toll of racism. 🗓️ October 3–5 | Stellenbosch, Cape Town + online 🎟️ Tickets: thesocialjusticeagency.org/events/

Honored to be speaking at the Global Anti-Racism Summit 2025 in Cape Town this October. 🌍 👉 30% off online tickets now at thesocialjusticeagency.org/events/ #GAS2025 #AntiRacism #TruthTraumaToll

Stop waiting for them to save us. Every time they ease up, we forget 500 years of brutality. Liberation starts when we build our own—our art, our care, our glue between each other. That’s the work we’re doing inside Black Octopus Society. 🌊 blackoctopussociety.com

Liberation isn’t real if it excludes. My freedom is bound up with Black trans lives, with sisters facing misogynoir, with everyone crushed by colonization, imperialism, and land theft. That’s the work we’re building inside Black Octopus Society. 🌊 blackoctopussociety.com

Anger is not the enemy. In the face of brutality, numbness is. If you can watch what’s happening in the world and feel nothing—you’re the problem. Join us in practicing something different: body-based justice, care, and community inside Black Octopus Society. 🌊http://BlackOctopusSociety.com

Grateful to have served as cultural consultant on Night Always Comes—a gripping new film now streaming on @netflix.com It asks hard questions about survival, safety, and home. Honored to support the team behind it. #NightAlwaysComes

They called it a “multilateral lunch.” But the photo op came with a funeral. USAID dissolved. 14M deaths projected. This isn’t partnership—it’s abandonment. 📖 The Quaking of America: centralrecoverypress.com/product/the-... 🧠 blackoctopussociety.com #QuakingOfAmerica

On Aug 9, I join the Global Anti-Racism Summit. This is movement work—global, embodied, urgent. We’re naming white body supremacy and building sustainable coalitions. 🎟️ Join us: us.commitchange.com/mn/minneapol... #GlobalAntiRacismSummit #ResmaaMenakem

They told us the bill was beautiful. But the beauty was delay. Cuts to housing, food, and care—after your vote. This is harm postponed. Stay in your body. Stay alert. 📖 The Quaking of America: centralrecoverypress.com/product/the-... 🧠 blackoctopussociety.com #QuakingOfAmerica

Long live Black bookstores, Black authors, and Black literature. Sign up. Support your local. Let’s own our stories. 🖤https://www.nab2.org/membership #NAB2 #BlackBookstores #QuakingOfAmerica #BlackLiterature #SomaticAbolitionism #SupportBlackBusiness

Lifting up #AvaDuVernay’s 13th today in this wave of #communallove. It’s more than a film—it’s a map. Inside Black Octopus Society, we do this same work in the body—tracking harm, interrupting patterns, building new futures. 🌊 blackoctopussociety.com

Been in the rhythm of this communal love lately Deante’ Kyle’s @deantekyle.bsky.social (Grits & Eggs Podcast) is a brilliant space for grounded reflection on racism, repair, and collective truth. It echoes the nervous-system work we’re building in Black Octopus Society. 🌊 blackoctopussociety.com

Communal love means spotlighting real, body-based justice work. Today’s light: @novareid.bsky.social's The Good Ally. Not just a guide—a reckoning. “Black Women Are Divine” lives in the bones. 🌊 blackoctopussociety.com #ResmaaRecommends #SomaticAbolitionism #TheGoodAlly

For the movement-builders: The Revolution Will Not Be Funded by INCITE! exposes the nonprofit industrial complex with clarity and care. If you’re dreaming beyond grant cycles, come through. 🌊 blackoctopussociety.com #ResmaaRecommends #SomaticAbolitionism #INCITE