Healing the Traumas of Slavery: Removing the slave ship from the body - an experiential.
Patricia Powell, Professor of English, Mills College at Northeastern University

This talk is about the ways in which the Middle Passage lives inside us still, the symptoms that the experience exhibits, and how we might think about a protocol that brings healing and resilience.

Patricia Powell is a writer and healer. Her novels include, Me Dying Trial, A Small Gathering of Bones, The Pagoda and The Fullness of Everything. A novel, Balm Yard, and a nonfiction book, Healing the Traumas of Slavery, are forthcoming. Powell is a Professor of English at Mills College at Northeastern University in Oakland, California.

“What I Am Thinking About Now” or WITAN is an informal workshop series where scholars present recently published works/works in progress for early-stage feedback and development.