The soul wound, settler-colonialism, and menstrual cycles + Maldonado Torres on Frantz Fanon

Hi y'all in this blog post I'm going to share a little bit about the concepts of settler-colonialism, the soul wound, and mahwari (menstrual) cycles. I use the word “concept” here as one way to describe them from an analytical point of view, however these words that I'm using in English are actions. They are practices that have been passed down through the generations and something that we will attend to in our class on “abnormal” psychology or psychological disturbance.

We are learning these concepts/practices so that we can grow in our own self-study of our own mind AND support our friends, our family members, our future clients potentially, our colleagues to heal - so that we can heal our own minds and the collective mind.

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