Becoming a Yam: Healing Narratives as Political Resistance in the Time of COVID-19

Genealogy

LatoyaB. Brooks¹  KareemaJ. Gray¹ 

[1] Program School of Social Work, Johnson C. Smith University, NC 28216, USA;

关键词: Black women;    COVID-19;    African-centered healing;    feminist theory;    narratives;   

DOI  :  10.3390/genealogy5020031

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

COVID-19 created a crisis that forced people to deal with the social, emotional, personal, and interpersonal impact of the virus in the United States. Simultaneously, Black people continued to be murdered and victimized by systemic racism and social injustice. Choosing wellness, self-recovery, and self-care during the global pandemonium surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic serves as an act of political resistance in the face of oppression and violence. The purpose of this essay is to explore the authors’ embodied uses of personal narratives centering the work sisters of the yam: black women and self-recovery, feminist theory, and African-centered social work paradigms as coping strategies and healing work during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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