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Day 12 (Week 2, Day 5)
Day 12 (Week 2, Day 5)
Dr. Dominique C. Hill
Dr. Dominique C. Hill
Healer
Removing Binaries
Removing Binaries
Theme
Internal Work & Graceful Breathing
Internal Work & Graceful Breathing
Guided Practice
On this day...
On this day...
Dear 28-Day Meditation for Black Liberation family,
In the spirit of Liberation in Intimacy and Transformative Justice, the Global Dance Meditation organizing team will be doing internal work within the collective today.
Day 12 “Removing the Binary,” is all about engaging and embracing the "betwixt and between," the greys, ambiguity, and beauty of liberation work. It asks that we take time to reflect on the limitations of an either/or orientation to the world. The work of this day is specifically about examining the ways we deny complex, multidimensional, and layered truths.
We encourage you to consider, as we ourselves are doing, the parallels between removing the binary and restorative justice. How can we hold the complexities of the personal and interpersonal as well as the social and institutional? How does binary thinking and action harm us? By centering liberation through love, what new possibilities emerge? How do we hold ourselves and each other accountable without abandonment and cancel culture, especially with its parallels to state-sanctioned punitive systems that label people as "good" or "bad"?
We offer transparency as we pause. This is the work.
Meditation Practices
Meditation Practices
Today is about graceful breathing—taking time, recalibrating to natural time for a moment away from the hustle and bustle of show-go-time.
By Dr. Dominique C. Hill
Liberation Journal Prompt
Liberation Journal Prompt
How is all of you doing? (Inner child, Adult self, yesterday's best verses today's best, intentions and practices)
How is all of you doing? (Inner child, Adult self, yesterday's best verses today's best, intentions and practices)
Click to use the Penzu JournalingApp
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
GDM_Day 12 Vocab [NO DATES].pdfWeekly Questions: What are the masks that I wear that are ready to be put down? What is my relationship to accountability; with myself and to others I care for and value? How do I show up in authentic allyship without inviting the performance of my ego to steer? Where can I practice transformative justice within my most intimate relationships and interactions to be liberatory? Am I aware of the microaggressions committed in my presence, how will I begin responding to microaggressions? Can I relinquish my conditioned responses enough to invite expanded beliefs of liberation into my awareness?
Song of the Day
Song of the Day
Listen to the full 28 Day Meditation for Black Liberation playlist made by Mark Gutierrez on Spotify.
““Fight the Power”
““Fight the Power”
By Public Enemy
By Public Enemy
An anthem of resistance that went mainstream, “Fight the Power” has become a part of the American collective consciousness. But don’t let its popularity fool you, the song packs a message of education, community, and love that is even more radical than it’s unforgettable hook. “To revolutionize make a change… What we need is awareness, we can't get careless...My beloved let's get down to business… Mental self defensive fitness.”
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