Our Bodies as Multi-storied Communities: Ethics and Practices

Abstract

In this article, I introduce and develop an outline of the ethics and practices that invite us to recognize our bodies as multi-storied communities and to engage in decolonial feminist co-research. In discussing how we might come to these practices I share multimedia fragments of co-research, alongside a person I'm consulting with. This gives the reader the chance to see these ideas and practices in the journey of becoming rather than from a position of having reached a certain destination. This article offers a unique way of unpacking therapy sessions together with the person at the center and demonstrates the need to question the very notion of our bodies as singular and how that affects our practice. It contributes to the literature by calling into question taken-forgranted notions of our body and thereby how to engage, involve, and connect with body-inclusive practices in therapy.