The Black body was created to be loved.
Collective generational trauma demands collective healing.
Black Exhale is committed to empowering and resourcing our communities with tools to create healing spaces. We honor the wounds and wisdom of our ancestors while imagining a future where we are collectively free.
Est. 2020
Black Exhale at the United Nations
Black Exhale is honored to host a special Reparations Café as an official side event for the Fourth Session of the UN Permanent Forum on People of African Descent. Join us on Wednesday, April 16th @ 6:30-8:00 pm ET as we create space for embodied integration of reparatory justice discussions through trauma-informed practices and collective witnessing.
Register now at cafe.blackexhale.org
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Photo by Micah Brown
“All societies need collective healing spaces where emotions and experiences can be witnessed, and creative inspiration for the future can emerge.”
-Point of Relation Podcast
AS FEATURED IN
A reparative ecosystem.
We acknowledge that historical trauma has affected our lives and communities. We confront racism as a liberatory practice. We are survivor-centered and diasporic. We believe that by healing ourselves, we can start to intraracially heal the space between us and expand from there.
Antoinette Cooper
is a multi-disciplinary artist, educator, and organizer dedicated to healing collective trauma through the arts, ancestral wisdom, and embodied practices. Born in Jamaica and raised in NYC public housing, Antoinette is a survivor who knows violence by its first name. As the founder of Black Exhale, she creates sanctuary for the liberated Black body.
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