CONTENTS

1. Title Page
2. Copyright
3. Dedication
4. List of Figures
5. List of Tables
6. Preface
   1. Lucia
   2. Christine
   3. Why This Book
7. Acknowledgments
8. Introduction
9. Part 1: The Oppression of the Body in Societies
   1. Las Tristes, Muertas y Dormidas
   2. Endnotes
   3. Bibliography
10. Chapter 1: The Trauma of Oppression: A Somatic Perspective
    1. Defining Oppression
    2. Oppression as Trauma
    3. Trauma in the Body
    4. Body as the Site of Oppression
    5. Conclusion
    6. Endnotes
    7. Bibliography
11. Chapter 2: Body Identity Development: Who We Are and Who We Become
    1. Body Identity Development
    2. Disruptions of Body Identity
    3. Resolutions of Body Identity
    4. The Body Moving Forward and In All Directions
    5. Endnotes
    6. Bibliography
12. Chapter 3: I Am a Body on the Body of the Earth
    1. Oppression of the Body and the Earth
    2. Reclaiming Our Sacred Bodies
    3. Endnotes
    4. Bibliography
13. Chapter 4: Fat Embodiment: The Case for Ethical Reading
    1. Bodies as Public Rhetoric
    2. Embodied Orientations and Ethical Reading
    3. Practicing Ethical Reading: Dress Profesh
    4. Endnotes
    5. Bibliography
14. Part 2: Marginalized Bodies in Society
    1. Chapter 5: Stolen Bodies, Reclaimed Bodies: Disability and Queerness
    2. Chapter 6: Queering/Querying the Body: Sensation and Curiosity in Disrupting Body Norms
       1. Body Norms, Body Shame, and Social Power
       2. Queering the Body
       3. Querying the Body
       4. Querying the Bodies of Others
       5. Endnotes
       6. Bibliography
    3. Chapter 7: The Transcarceral Body: Beyond the Enemy Behind Me—From Incarceration to Emancipation
       1. Method
       2. Labels
       3. Race as Commodity or Liability
       4. The Body as Property, Product, and Object
       5. The Body as Subject
       6. Release and the Body of Reconfinement
       7. The Transcarceral Body: Beyond the Enemy Behind Me
       8. Conclusion
       9. Endnotes
       10. Bibliography
    4. Chapter 8: The Oppression of Black Bodies: The Demand to Simulate White Bodies and White Embodiment
       1. Writing: Racism and White Supremacy on and in My Black Body
       2. The Demand to Simulate White Bodies
       3. The Demand to Simulate White Embodiment in Somatic Counseling and Psychotherapy
       4. Resistance and Embodied Filtering
       5. A Letter to My Grandmother
       6. Endnotes
       7. Bibliography
    5. Chapter 9: The Violence of Medicalization
       1. A Primer on Unnecessary Gendering
       2. Mindful Embodiment: A Tango with the Gendered Body to Clear the Shadows
       3. A Bit of Wallpaper
       4. Transforming the Violence
       5. An Invitation
       6. Endnotes
       7. Bibliography
15. Part 3: Embodied Action
    1. Chapter 10: Queer Resistance: Reclamation and Resilience
       1. Violence and Danger
       2. Choosing Resistance/Choosing Survival
       3. Endnotes
       4. Bibliography
    2. Chapter 11: Moving Between Identities: Embodied Code-Switching
       1. Being Multicultural
       2. Code-Switching
       3. Code-Switching in the Brain
       4. Code-Switching through Embodied Culture
       5. Embodied Code-Switching
       6. Conclusion
       7. Endnotes
       8. Bibliography
    3. Chapter 12: Trauma and the Body: Somatic Practices for Everyday Resiliency
       1. Trauma-Informed Somatic Practices
       2. The Moving Cycle
       3. The Awareness Phase
       4. The Owning Phase
       5. The Appreciation Phase
       6. The Action Phase
       7. Therapist/Activist/Ally Skills
       8. Transforming and Resisting Oppression
       9. Conclusion
       10. Endnotes
       11. Bibliography
    4. Chapter 13: Transforming Distress: Grieving Dysphoric Bodies in Community
       1. A Model of Body Psychotherapeutic Group Intervention to Support Management of Body Dysphoria as Experienced by Preoperative Transsexuals
       2. Why So Urgent?
       3. Setting the Stage
       4. Theoretical Wallpaper
       5. Transforming Distress in Six Modules
       6. Getting Specific
       7. To Conclude
       8. Endnotes
       9. Bibliography
    5. Index
    6. Author and Artist Biographies (in order of appearance)
    7. About North Atlantic Books

List of Tables

List of Figures

1. Figure 1-1
2. Figure 10-1: Untitled (It’s Your World) by Andria Morales and Damien Davis
3. Figure 11-1
4. Figure 11-2
5. Figure 11-3
6. Figure 12-1
7. Figure 13-1
8. Figure 13-2

Guide

1. Cover
2. Title Page
3. Front Matter
4. Dedication
5. Preface
6. Introduction
7. Part 1 The Oppression of the Body in Societies
8. Chapter 1: The Trauma of Oppression: A Somatic Perspective
9. Start Reading
10. Chapter 2: Body Identity Development: Who We Are and Who We Become
11. Chapter 3: I Am a Body on the Body of the Earth
12. Chapter 4: Fat Embodiment: The Case for Ethical Reading
13. Part 2Marginalized Bodies in Society
14. Chapter 5: Stolen Bodies, Reclaimed Bodies: Disability and Queerness
15. Chapter 6: Queering/Querying the Body: Sensation and Curiosity in Disrupting Body Norms
16. Chapter 7: The Transcarceral Body: Beyond the Enemy Behind Me—From Incarceration to Emancipation
17. Chapter 8: The Oppression of Black Bodies: The Demand to Simulate White Bodies and White Embodiment
18. Chapter 9: The Violence of Medicalization
19. Part 3EmbodiedAction
20. Chapter 10: Queer Resistance: Reclamation and Resilience
21. Chapter 11: Moving Between Identities: Embodied Code-Switching
22. Chapter 12: Trauma and the Body: Somatic Practices for Everyday Resiliency
23. Chapter 13: Transforming Distress: Grieving Dysphoric Bodies in Community
24. Index
25. Author and Artist Biographies (in order of appearance)