Resources for anti-racism and Somatic Abolitionism work
This page is a collection of resource, looking at dismantling systems and ideologies of oppression that devalue and dehumanize people of color. Here you’ll find a wealth of anti-racism and… Read More
Access Intimacy: The Missing Link
Mia Mingus' 2011 essay coining and describing the term access intimacy "Access intimacy is that elusive, hard to describe feeling when someone else “gets” your access needs." Read More
Living in this queer body
This podcast is for all of us queerly bodied people. Sometimes it feels like there is a constricting demand on our bodies, that we must look or feel or experience… Read More
(Critical) Clitoral Embodiment
Sarah Mann-O'Donnell reflects in her blog on her experience participating in a Clitoral Embodiment workshop with Nicole Bindler, "...my experience of her clitoral embodiment work was quite simply that of… Read More
A Non-Binary Guide to Embodying One’s Embryonic Gonads
This audio recording for the Somatics Toolkit shares a practice created by Nicole Bindler that explores the development of the gonads, which are embryonic, unsexed ovaries, testis, or nonbinary variations.… Read More
Palestinian Dance and the Obfuscation of Somatic Source Material
In this blog post for the Somatics Toolkit, Nicole Bindler discusses three topics derived from her lecture "Embodied Palestine Solidarity" that refer to ways that dance practices in the region… Read More
On Bias and Neutrality in Contact Improvisation
This piece by Nicole Bindler for Contact Quarterly makes a case for a more politicized contact improvisation community, specifically around the issue of Palestine/Israel. Read More
Generative Somatics: what is a politicised somatics?
An essay that asks what is a politicised somatics and talks about what somatics is and is not. Read More