Home Is Where the Healing Is?
An Emotional Justice presentation by CBVC Spring 2022 Distinguished Activist/Critic-in-Residence and CEO of The Armah Institute of Emotional Justice, Esther Armah Register for Event - Click Here Home is about inside. Healing is about inside worlds – our emotional, spiritual insides where lockdown triggered triggers and home was restless and bubbling traumas and trouble for millions. It was an undoing we didn’t see coming, and we didn’t know how not to be undone. This is an Emotional Justice presentation. It explores home, shelter, Blackness, humanity and emotional labor to make peace within our Black bodies, in the absence of shelter in nations like the US and UK and Brazil – all places that politicized and weaponized a virus turning it into a death-seeking missile that claimed millions. It is a dual exploration that asks: what does it mean to make home within yourself when an industry of busyness shapes our relationship to...


