Shifters

Text of the day: “It’s a strange thing, isn’t it?/ Living in a Black body and trying to become aware/ of the way your body interacts with the world and not just the way the world interacts with your body./ It’s almost like unlearning something you were taught/ before you even knew you’d been taught it./ How do you begin to rewire your mind and train your body to relax into touch — again?/ A body that has been on alert/ long before it fully grew into itself.” (Des in Benedict Lombe’s Shifters)

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