WRITINGS | BodyworkWithJ

Feb 3, 20221 min read

Be Like the Ocean

The questions in this poem are directly from and adapted from questions Alixa Garcia posed in a workshop called "A Practice in Becoming...

Jan 20, 20225 min read

When Sex* Isn't an Option: Embodiment Lessons During a Pandemic

*referring to sex between two or more people. Solo sex is awesome for anyone who finds it awesome, but that’s not what this blog is...

Nov 15, 20213 min read

Healing That Harms

“Healing” that harms (rather than healing towards liberation) is a discussion topic that often comes up in intentional spaces I share...

Oct 16, 202013 min read

On ‘Law and Order’ in ‘America’ and New Imaginations for white People

Author Notes: This piece is directed at white folks, from a white person. It is never my place, or the place of any white human, to speak...

Jul 15, 202016 min read

On “Building A Culture”* And How Our Mental Health Affects Anti-Racism Work: A Call To White Folks

*This references Resmaa Menakem’s call to white folks for us to build a culture, not a strategy, and put the work in as a community, as...

Jun 26, 20207 min read

Bath for Self-Regulation *With Breath and Touch Integration*

*Variations provided for a similar practice in the shower or outside of the water completely* I offer this as a practice I have used to...