

Thu, Nov 17
|Zoom
Workshop: Affirmations from The Body with Anastacia-Reneé
Time & Location
Nov 17, 2022, 6:00 PM CST
Zoom
About the event
Description: As a community, we will bravely confront negative self-chatter along with pop culture’s non-affirming impact on our minds and bodies. We will ground ourselves in the pages of Audre Lorde’s, “The Cancer Journals,” and Sonya Renee Taylor’s, “The Body is Not an Apology.” We will fully inhabit our bodies as we write micro-nonfiction and affirm our bodies with a Body Haibun to counteract messages of internalized disdain we’ve received over time and collectively, we will create a powerful manifesto for our present and future bodies of 2022 and beyond.
*Each class participant will receive instructions for a self-care kit prior to the first day of class.
*Text will be provided to workshop participants.
Registration: To fulfill TORCH's mission, workshops are open to participants who identify as Black women and women of color. Email contact @ torchliteraryarts.org with the subject line "Affirmations from The Body" to register. The deadline to…