Resmaa Menakem is an author and psychotherapist working in Minneapolis Minnesota. As a specialist focused on racial trauma, Menakem works to help people metabolize intergenerational pain and pay attention to the cues their bodies are communicating rather than burying them.

Here are links that Menakem recommends to learn more about trauma and systemic racism, and links to some tools that can help to address both.

Hotlines for Survivors of Violence and Trauma

My Grandmother’s Hands, by Resmaa Menakem 

More about Somatic Abolitionism from Resmaa Menakem

Me and White Supremacy, by Layla F. Saad

White Fragility, by Robin DiAngelo

Adrienne Maree Brown: http://adriennemareebrown.net/

Rachel Cargle: https://www.rachelcargle.com/