Family of Goofy Bodies
What stories must be released to make space in the body for freedom and movement? To be — at home, fully alive, present, sensing, and connected?
Using shaking as metaphor and writing as medicine, Family of Goofy Bodies asks us to go beyond ideological understanding of colonialism and whiteness to actually feel how it lives in our bodies as a crisis of energy and attention.
Tracing the lives and silences of her ancestors, Vero invites us to reanimate ourselves to realize the full potential of what family is for: a vehicle for somatic liberation — a literal biological technology for healing.
A collection of poetry broken into three parts — intimacy, ancestors, and liberation — it is a visceral map, a practical yet mystical guide for metabolizing trauma and disconnection in your own lineage.
“To love you is to walk the lands that birthed you and be shattered by the wounds of your ancestors, stored in the body I’m kissing.”
(RE)ANIMATE yourself to join the Free World!
“We have resorted to this very unfortunate word, "inanimate," and we imply to ourselves that stones, clouds, the ocean are inanimate, without anima, without soul, but it's all soul." — Pir Zia Inayat Khan
The colonial mind has programed us to believe otherwise, but Freedom is swimming around us at all times. When we bump up against it, we feel tingles down our spines. It’s the way of life for everything parallel humans.
We are animators, as in we listen to the aliveness of everything. We have a wide sense of belonging. We do not need ideologies, or nations, or institutions to mediate our relationships to reality.
Because we are animated. Guided by the sensations of the world moving through us, our actions are always in balance. We need nothing more than to create with our presence.