Abstract
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.
Highlights
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The authors connected at the beginning of the quarantine to read and reflect upon sisters of the yam: black women and self-recovery and found its concepts valuable to their coping
African-centered practices explored in sisters of the yam and encouraged other to engage in rest and self-care as we supported students and community projects for social justice
Summary
The changing demands of the environment lead the authors to explore/reflect on how Black women found healing during uncertain times. The authors connected at the beginning of the quarantine to read and reflect upon sisters of the yam: black women and self-recovery and found its concepts valuable to their coping. Hooks (2015) encourages Black women to engage in the process of self-recovery as a liberatory political practice in order to continue engaging in sustainable, organized, fully functioning liberation work. Use of the work sisters of the yam: black women and self-recovery (Hooks 2015), feminist theory, and African-centered paradigms as coping strategies and healing work during the COVID-19 pandemic through the use of narratives. Various concepts for healing that provided the conceptual frameworks for creating mutual aid and building support networks during the pandemic to maintain wellness
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