Breathing connection, breathing resistance

Black breath and poetry as praxis

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ID21875834
AuthorsJessica Lemire (0009-0006-8131-7940, ISNI: 000000008831109X University of Newcastle, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume11
Issue1
Pages23-42
Publication date2024-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueDance Movement & Spiritualities (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2051-7068 • E-ISSN: 2051-7076
PublisherIntellect (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1386/dmas_00065_1
OpenAlexW4413271940
LanguageEN
References cited18

How is your breath? I wish to invite you into a breath practice that brings us – people of the diaspora – into connection across time and place. I offer this article as a place of rest, a sanctuary for us to breathe freely. A place where our inhales and exhales are not constricted by the racialized structures that render us breathless. I carve out this space, a container, for us to breathe into each other, for each other, together. I guide this practice of breathing together through poetry because in poetry we breathe connection – to our sensual bodies, our communities and our Ancestors. In poetry and in praxis we breathe resistance. Learning from and responding to the resonant affects of Ev’Yan Whitney’s Sensual Dance Meditation, an ontologically Black movement practice, I explore the deeply embodied, shared and ancestral wisdom that we hold, that emerges through breath. Here, we breathe poetry together

Art · Biology · Breathing · Epistemology · Literature · Poetry · Praxis · Engineering · Latin American and Latino Studies · Medicine · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Anatomy · Mechanical Engineering

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