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
“It didn't feel like a community, it felt like family.”
“Yes, what it means to be sovereign.”
“Held in such a Spiritual and intimate way.”
“Simultaneously loves, holds and challenges Black and Brown souls.”
“Giving our ancestors a space to be included through us while having an embodied invitation to heal.”
“It's authentic, honest, straight forward and full of love. You feel understood.”
BASED IN NEW YORK CITY & CONNECTING GLOBALLY
The Black Exhale Nest
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
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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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.
