“If the land, like the body, can hold a trauma…it can also, perhaps, hold a healing.”
— Elizabeth-Jane Burnett. The Grassling. Allen Lane, 2019.
 
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Joshua Bennett. Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2020.

 
 
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Bessel van der Kolk. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma. New York, NY: Penguin Books, 2015.

 
 
“So if the drama that Auntie Sarah played out with Cezar [her British captor] forced him to lift a stick, to utter threats, or to close her cage door, it made a very strong statement about violence against black women, which British observers could not ignore…In London, she found a stage and an audience. She used this, to the best of her ability, to speak about the social relations she knew. Her art and her resistance, was to make the violence embedded in these social relations visible. ”
— Yvette Abrahams. “Colonialism, Dysfunction and Disjuncture: Sarah Bartmann’s Resistance (Remix).” Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity, no. 58 (2003): 12–26.
 
“My praxis seeks to maintain communality as a cure away from the myth of the artist “genius’ within an individualistically centered art-world”
— Jade Montserrat. “Race and Representation in Northern Britain in the Context of the Black Atlantic: A Creative Practice Project.” University of Central Lancashire, 2020.
 
 
 
 
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Silvia Federici. Re-Enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons. Oakland, California: PM Press, 2018.