Notes - Who Is Wellness For?

Epigraph

1. Joanna Macy, “Entering the Bardo,” Emergence, October 5, 2021, https://emergencemagazine.org/op_ed/entering-the-bardo/.

Introduction

1. Zoë Carpenter, “What’s Killing America’s Black Infants?” The Nation, December 23, 2019, https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/whats-killing-americas-black-infants/.

2. Resmaa Menakem, My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies (Penguin Books, 2021), 9.

3. June Jordan, Civil Wars (Simon & Schuster, 1995), 12.

4. Anne Boyer, The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care (Picador, 2020), 79.

5. Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass (Tantor Media, Inc., 2016), 47.

6. Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 338.

Chapter 1: On the Mind

1. Kimberlé Crenshaw, host. “Storytelling While Black and Female: Conjuring Beautiful Experiments.” Under the Blacklight, August 6, 2020, https://soundcloud.com/intersectionality-matters/24-storytelling-while-black-and-female-conjuring-beautiful-experiments-in-past-and-future-worlds.

2. Gabor Maté, When the Body Says No: Exploring the Stress-Disease Connection (Vermilion, 2019), 16.

3. David Wojnarowicz, Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration (Canongate Books, 2017).

4. Maté, “The Bermuda Triangle,” When the Body Says No, 9.

5. Alaka Wali, “Democracy and the Iroquois Constitution,” November 1, 2016, https://www.fieldmuseum.org/blog/democracy-and-iroquois-constitution (accessed 2/12).

6. “Storytelling and Survivorship with Amita Swadhin,” Studio Ānanda, https://www.studioananda.space/2021/09/01/storytelling-and-survivorship-with-amita-swadhin/.

7. Maté, “The Bermuda Triangle,” When the Body Says No, 78.

8. Maté, “The Little Girl Too Good to Be True,” When the Body Says No, 19.

9. Elaine Scarry, The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World (Oxford University Press, 1985).

10. Anne Boyer, “What Is the Language of Pain? An Ugly Gathering of Adjectives,” Literary Hub, September 16, 2019. https://lithub.com/anne-boyer-what-is-the-language-of-pain/.

11. Susan M. Johnson, Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love (Little, Brown, 2010), 34.

Chapter 2: On Meditation

1. Matthew Thorpe and Rachael Link, “12 Benefits of Meditation,” Healthline, October 27, 2020. https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/12-benefits-of-meditation.

2. Chris Brennan, host, “Queen Buran, Astrologer in 9th Century Baghdad,” The Astrology Podcast, March 12, 2021. https://theastrologypodcast.com/2021/03/12/queen-buran-astrologer-in-9th-century-baghdad/.

3. “Finding the Cure for Pain in the Pain with Shadi Sankary,” Studio Ānanda, September 1, 2021. https://www.studioananda.space/2021/09/01/finding-the-cure-for-pain-in-the-pain-with-shadi-sankary/.

4. Budd L. Hall and Rajesh Tandon, “Decolonization of Knowledge, Epistemicide, Participatory Research and Higher Education,” Research for All 1, no. 1 (2017): 6–19. https://doi.org/10.18546/RFA.01.1.02.

5. Hall and Tandon, “Decolonization of Knowledge, Epistemicide, Participatory Research and Higher Education,” 6–19.

6. Robert Puff, “An Overview of Meditation: Its Origins and Traditions,” Psychology Today, July 7, 2013. https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/meditation-modern-life/201307/overview-meditation-its-origins-and-traditions.

7. R. K. Kaushik, Architect of Human Destiny?: Who Brings about Peace or Chaos? (Kalpaz Publications, 2003), 6.

8. David Dale Holmes, “A Buddhist View on Caste and Equality,” Buddhistdoor Global, June 15, 2021. https://www.buddhistdoor.net/features/a-buddhist-view-on-caste-and-equality/.

9. Shridhar Sharma, “Psychiatry, Colonialism and Indian Civilization: A Historical Appraisal,” Indian Journal of Psychiatry 48, no. 2 (2006): 109–12. https://doi.org/10.4103/0019–5545.31600.

10. Omer Aziz, “Blighted by Empire: What the British Did to India,” Los Angeles Review of Books, September 1, 2018. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/blighted-by-empire-what-the-british-did-to-india/.

11. Dadabhai Naoroji, “Poverty and Un-British Rule in India,” Internet Archive, Swan Sonnenschein, 1901. https://archive.org/details/povertyunbritish00naoruoft/page/n3/mode/2up.

12. Dadabhai Naoroji, Poverty of India (Forgotten Books, 2018).

13. Sharma, “Psychiatry, Colonialism and Indian Civilization,” 109–12.

14. Sharma, “Psychiatry, Colonialism and Indian Civilization,” 109–12.

15. David Forbes, “How Capitalism Captured the Mindfulness Industry,” Guardian, April 16, 2019. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/apr/16/how-capitalism-captured-the-mindfulness-industry.

16. Forbes, “How Capitalism Captured the Mindfulness Industry.”

17. Ron Purser and David Loy, “Beyond McMindfulness,” HuffPost, August 31, 2013. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/beyond-mcmindfulness_b_3519289.

18. Sharma, “Psychiatry, Colonialism and Indian Civilization,”109–12.

19. Ronald Purser, “From Neoliberal to Social Mindfulness,” Powell’s Books, July 12, 2019. https://www.powells.com/post/original-essays/from-neoliberal-to-social-mindfulness.

20. Ashley Ross, “How Meditation Went Mainstream,” Time, March 9, 2016. https://time.com/4246928/meditation-history-buddhism/.

21. Johanna Slater and Niha Masi, “India Passes Controversial Citizenship Law Excluding Muslim Migrants, Washington Post, December 11, 2019.

22. B. R. Ambedkar, Annihilation of Caste (New Delhi: Rupa, 2018).

23. Arundhati Roy, The End of Imagination (Haymarket Books, 2016), 5.

24. Trinh T. Minh-Ha, When the Moon Waxes Red: Representation, Gender and Cultural Politics (Routledge, 2013), 20.

25. Rabindranath Tagore, Nationalism (Penguin Books, 2017).

26. Sir Rabindranath Tagore, “Works of Tagore from the Modern Review, 1909–24/The Spirit of Japan,” Wikisource. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Works_of_Tagore_from_the_Modern_Review,_1909–24/The_Spirit_of_Japan.

27. Purser and Loy, “Beyond McMindfulness.”

28. David Kortava, “Lost in Thought,” Harper’s Magazine, April 2021. https://harpers.org/archive/2021/04/lost-in-thought-psychological-risks-of-meditation/.

29. Michael Yellow Bird, Neurodecolonization and Indigenous Mindfulness. https://www.indigenousmindfulness.com/about.

30. Michael Yellow Bird, “Decolonizing the Mind: Using Mindfulness Research and Traditional Indigenous Ceremonies to Delete the Neural Networks of Colonialism.” Accessed February 15, 2022. http://www.aihec.org/our-stories/docs/BehavioralHealth/2016/NeurodecolonizationMindfulness_YellowBird.pdf.

31. Tagore, “Works of Tagore from the Modern Review, 1909–24/The Spirit of Japan.”

Chapter 3: On Intuition and Unseen Things

1. Masaru Emoto, The Hidden Messages in Water (Beyond Words, 2004).

2. Dwight Garner, “Inside the List,” New York Times, March 13, 2005, https://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/13/books/review/inside-the-list.html.

3. “Clean Living Movement,” Wikipedia, accessed September 25, 2021, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_living_movement.

4. Sabrina Strings, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia (New York University Press, 2019), 196.

5. Lisa Ellis, “Snapshot of the American Pharmaceutical Industry,” Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, October 28, 2019. https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/ecpe/snapshot-of-the-american-pharmaceutical-industry/.

6. Cheryl Wischhover, “Can Wellness Be Scientific?” The Cut, July 19, 2016. https://www.thecut.com/swellness/2016/07/can-wellness-be-scientific.html.

7. Sebene Selassie, You Belong: A Call for Connection (HarperOne, 2021), 21.

8. Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype (Ballantine Books, 1995), 8, 47.

9. Estés, Women Who Run with the Wolves, 8.

10. Mariana Alessandri, “The Gender Politics of Fasting,” New York Times, January 14, 2019. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/14/opinion/fasting-gender-politics.html.

11. Alessandri, “The Gender Politics of Fasting.”

12. Alessandri, “The Gender Politics of Fasting.”

13. Cheryl Wischhover, “Can Wellness Be Scientific?”

14. Alessandri, “The Gender Politics of Fasting.”

15. Garner, “Inside the List.”

16. William Reville, “The Pseudoscience of Creating Beautiful (or Ugly) Water,” Irish Times, February 17, 2013, https://www.irishtimes.com/news/science/the-pseudoscience-of-creating-beautiful-or-ugly-water-1.574583.

17. Franklin Edgerton, Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Grammar and Dictionary (Yale University Press, 1972), 221.

18. Mimi Thi Nguyen, The Gift of Freedom: War, Debt, and Other Refugee Passages (Duke University Press, 2012), 11.

19. Selassie, You Belong, 47.

20. Ivan Illich, Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis, the Expropriation of Health (M. Boyars, 2013).

21. Gabor Maté, “Opinion: Time to Stress Cancer Rates Among the Young,” The Globe and Mail, April 24, 2002. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/time-to-stress-cancer-rates-among-the-young/article754321/.

22. Anne Boyer, The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2019), 123.

23. Gabor Maté, “The Bermuda Triangle,” When the Body Says No: Exploring the Stress-Disease Connection (Vermilion, 2019), 9.

24. “Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls,” National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center. https://www.niwrc.org/mmiwg-awareness.

25. Maté, “The Bermuda Triangle,” When the Body Says No, 9.

26. Selassie, You Belong, 48.

27. Penelope K. Trickett, Jennie G. Noll, and Frank W. Putnam, “The Impact of Sexual Abuse on Female Development: Lessons from a Multigenerational, Longitudinal Research Study,” Development and Psychopathology 23, no. 2 (2011): 453–76. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579411000174.

28. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders: DSM-5. Arlington, VA: American Psychiatric Association, 2017.

29. Silvia Federici, Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation (Autonomedia, 2014), 100.

30. Brennan, Chris, host, “Queen Buran, Astrologer in 9th Century Baghdad.” The Astrology Podcast, March 12, 2021. https://theastrologypodcast.com/2021/03/12/queen-buran-astrologer-in-9th-century-baghdad/.

31. “Mind–Body Dualism,” Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind%E2%80%93body_dualism.

32. Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2021), 71.

33. Estés, Women Who Run with the Wolves, 312.

34. Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work, 66.

Chapter 4: On the Frustrating Pitfalls of Healing

1. Arundhati Roy, The End of Imagination (Haymarket Books, 2016), 263.

2. Roy, The End of Imagination, 265.

3. C. J. Hauser, “The Crane Wife,” Paris Review, August 19, 2019. https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/07/16/the-crane-wife/.

4. Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2021), 215.

5. Gabor Maté, When the Body Says No: Exploring the Stress-Disease Connection (Vermilion, 2019), 3.

Chapter 5: Introduction to the Body

1. Lama Rod Owens, Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation through Anger (North Atlantic Books, 2020), 19.

2. Jackie Wang, Carceral Capitalism (Semiotext(e), 2018), 14.

3. Kimberlé Crenshaw, host, “What’s the Matter with Georgia? Virus, Voting, & Vigilantism the Peach State,” Under the Blacklight, May 13, 2020. https://soundcloud.com/intersectionality-matters/17-under-the-blacklight-virus-voting-vigilantism-in-georgia.

4. Anand Giridharadas, Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World (Alfred A. Knopf, 2018), 3.

5. David Wojnarowicz, Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration (Canongate Books), 2017.

6. Silvia Federici. Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation. (Autonomedia, 2014), 15.

7. Federici, Caliban and the Witch, 14.

8. Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass (Tantor Media, 2016), 304.

9. Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 308.

10. Giridharadas, Winners Take All, 8.

11. Giridharadas, Winners Take All, 34.

12. Alice Slater, “The US Has Military Bases in 80 Countries. All of Them Must Close,” The Nation, January 25, 2018. https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/the-us-has-military-bases-in-172-countries-all-of-them-must-close/.

13. Vivek Bald, “Unsettling the Nation from the Land: A Conversation with Manu Karuka,” Asian American Writers’ Workshop, The Margins, May 29, 2019. https://aaww.org/unsettling-the-nation-from-the-land-a-conversation-with-manu-karuka/.

14. Bald, “Unsettling the Nation from the Land.”

15. Bald, “Unsettling the Nation from the Land.”

16. Federici, Caliban and the Witch, 11.

17. Julietta Singh, Unthinking Mastery: Dehumanism and Decolonial Entanglements (Duke University Press, 2018), 34.

18. Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Continuum, 2005), 44.

19. Saidiya V. Hartman, Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America (Oxford University Press, 2010), 11.

20. Hartman, Scenes of Subjection, 53.

21. Hartman, Scenes of Subjection, 52.

22. Hartman, Scenes of Subjection, 53.

23. François Bernier, “Voyage dans les États du Grand Mogol,” introduction de France Bhattacharya (Arthème Fayard, 1981).

24. Siep Stuurman, “François Bernier and the Invention of Racial Classification,” History Workshop Journal 50 (2000): 1–21. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4289688.

25. Anna-Sophie Springer and Paulo Tavares, “The Political Nature of the Forest: A Botanic Archaeology of Genocide.” The Word for World Is Still Forest (K. Verlag, 2017).

26. Pierre H. Boulle, “Francois Bernier and the Origins of the Modern Concept of Race,” The Color of Liberty: Histories of Race in France, Sue Peabody and Tyler Stovell, eds. (Duke University Press, 2003), 11–19.

27. Sabrina Strings, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia (New York University Press, 2019), 68.

28. Vinson Cunningham, “The Future of L.A. Is Here. Robin D.G. Kelley’s Radical Imagination Shows Us the Way,” Los Angeles Times, March 17, 2021. https://www.latimes.com/lifestyle/image/story/2021-03-17/robin-dg-kelley-black-marxism-protests-la-politics.

Chapter 6: On Body Dysmorphia

1. Julietta Singh, No Archive Will Restore You (Punctum Books, 2018), 91.

2. Sebene Selassie, You Belong: A Call for Connection (HarperOne, 2021), 73.

3. Gabor Maté, “The Bermuda Triangle,” When the Body Says No: Exploring the Stress-Disease Connection (Vermilion, 2019), 203.

4. Selassie, You Belong, 99.

5. Maté, When the Body Says No, 192.

6. Maté, “The Bermuda Triangle,” When the Body Says No, 27.

7. Maté, When the Body Says No, 208.

8. Siep Stuurman, “François Bernier and the Invention of Racial Classification,” History Workshop Journal 50 (2000): 1–21. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4289688.

9. “Enmeshment,” Wikipedia, January 15, 2022. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enmeshment.

10. Adrienne Maree Brown, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good (AK Press, 2019), 289.

11. Julietta Singh, Unthinking Mastery: Dehumanism and Decolonial Entanglements (Duke University Press, 2018), 152.

12. Sabrina Strings, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia (New York: New York University Press, 2019), 6.

13. Maté, When the Body Says No, 110.

14. Maté, When the Body Says No, 223.

15. Brown, Pleasure Activism, 305.

16. Audre Lorde, The Audre Lorde Compendium (Pandora, 1996), 101.

17. Brown, Pleasure Activism, 440.

Chapter 7: On White People Co-opting Yoga

1. Resmaa Menakem, My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies (Penguin Books, 2021), 9.

2. Swami Vivekananda, Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action (Vedanta Press—Advaita Ashrama, 2007), 49.

3. Meera Navlakha, “For Indians in the Grip of a COVID-19 Crisis, Twitter Is a Desperate Last Resort,” gal-dem, April 23, 2021. https://gal-dem.com/india-covid-19-twitter/.

4. Prinita Thevarajah, “How Casteism Manifests in Yoga and Why It’s a Problem,” Byrdie, September 9, 2021. https://www.byrdie.com/casteism-in-yoga-5119378.

5. Thevarajah, “How Casteism Manifests in Yoga and Why It’s a Problem.”

6. Thevarajah, “How Casteism Manifests in Yoga and Why It’s a Problem.”

7. Vivekananda, Karma Yoga, 54.

8. Davis Gordon White, “Yoga, Brief History of an Idea.” Princeton University Press. Accessed February 15, 2022. https://assets.press.princeton.edu/chapters/i9565.pdf.

9. White, “Yoga, Brief History of an Idea.”

10. White, “Yoga, Brief History of an Idea.”

11. David Gordon White, ed., Yoga in Practice (Princeton University Press, 2012), 3, 12, 14–15.

12. Amara Miller, “The Origins of Yoga: Part III,” The Sociological Yogi, September 23, 2014. https://amaramillerblog.wordpress.com/2014/05/29/the-origins-of-yoga-part-iii/.

13. Amara Miller, “The Origins of Yoga: Part III,” The Sociological Yogi, May 29, 2014, https://amaramillerblog.wordpress.com/2014/05/29/the-origins-of-yoga-part-iii/.

14. Vivekananda, Karma Yoga, 81.

15. “The Indigeneity of Trauma Focused Yoga with Lakshmi Nair,” Studio Ānanda, September 2, 2012. https://www.studioananda.space/2021/09/02/the-indigeneity-of-trauma-focused-yoga-with-lakshmi-nair/.

16. Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass (Tantor Media, Inc., 2016).

17. Robin Wall Kimmerer, “The Serviceberry,” Emergence Magazine, https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/the-serviceberry/.

Chapter 8: On IBS

1. Bethany Webster, Discovering the Inner Mother: A Guide to Healing the Mother Wound and Claiming Your Personal Power (William Morrow, 2021), 39.

2. Webster, Discovering the Inner Mother, 39.

3. Webster, Discovering the Inner Mother, 39.

4. joanna hedva, “Sick Woman Theory.” Accessed February 15, 2022. https://johannahedva.com/SickWomanTheory_Hedva_2020.pdf.

5. Gloria Anzaldúa, Light in the Dark/Luz En Lo Oscuro: Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality (Duke University Press, 2015), 24.

6. Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2021), 56.

Chapter 9: Introduction to Radical Self-Care

1. Sarah Maslin Nir, “The Price of Nice Nails,” New York Times, May 7, 2015. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/10/nyregion/at-nail-salons-in-nyc-manicurists-are-underpaid-and-unprotected.html.

2. Brontë Velez and Tricia Hersey, “Resting on and for the Earth,” Atmos, April 28, 2021.

3. CJ Hauser, “The Crane Wife,” The Paris Review, August 19, 2019. https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/07/16/the-crane-wife/.

4. joanna hedva, “Sick Woman Theory.” Accessed February 15, 2022. https://johannahedva.com/SickWomanTheory_Hedva_2020.pdf.

5. Mia Mingus, “The Four Parts of Accountability: How to Give a Genuine Apology, Part 1,” Leaving Evidence, December 18, 2019. https://leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2019/12/18/how-to-give-a-good-apology-part-1-the-four-parts-of-accountability/.

6. Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals (Spinsters/Aunt Lute, 1987), 24.

7. Ann Cvetkovich, “Depression Is Ordinary: Public Feelings and Saidiya Hartman’s Lose Your Mother,” Feminist Theory 13, no. 2 (August 2012): 131–46. https://doi.org/10.1177/1464700112442641.

8. Henri J. M. Nouwen, Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life (Ave Maria Press, 2004), 18.

9. Louise A. DeSalvo, Writing as a Way of Healing: How Telling Our Stories Transforms Our Lives (Beacon Press, 2000), 185.

10. DeSalvo, Writing as a Way of Healing, 185.

11. joanna hedva, “Sick Woman Theory.”

12. Gloria Anzaldúa, Light in the Dark/Luz en Lo Oscuro: Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality (Duke University Press, 2015), 29.

13. Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype (Ballantine Books, 1995), 84.

Chapter 10: On Self-Care and Self-Harm

1. Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype (Ballantine Books, 1995), 51.

2. Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence, from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror (Basic Books, 2015), 13.

3. Herman, Trauma and Recovery, 14.

4. Herman, Trauma and Recovery, 14.

5. joanna hedva, “Sick Woman Theory.” Accessed February 15, 2022. https://johannahedva.com/SickWomanTheory_Hedva_2020.pdf.

6. Herman, Trauma and Recovery, 52.

7. Herman, Trauma and Recovery, 86.

8. Herman, Trauma and Recovery, 104.

9. Herman, Trauma and Recovery, 106.

10. Herman, Trauma and Recovery, 109.

11. Herman, Trauma and Recovery, 109.

12. Tamara Santibañez, Could This Be Magic? Tattooing as Liberation Work (Afterlife Press, 2021), 17.

13. Santibañez, Could This Be Magic?, 16.

14. Bethany Webster, Discovering the Inner Mother: A Guide to Healing the Mother Wound and Claiming Your Personal Power (William Morrow, 2021), 139.

Chapter 11: On Eroticism

1. Leïla Slimani, Sex and Lies: True Stories of Women’s Intimate Lives in the Arab World, trans. Sophie Lewis (Penguin Books, 2020), 34.

2. Slimani, Sex and Lies, 19.

3. Slimani, Sex and Lies, 20.

4. Slimani, Sex and Lies, 94.

5. Slimani, Sex and Lies, 94.

6. Pankaj Mishra, From the Ruins of Empire: The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia (Picador Paper, 2013), 9.

7. William Belsham, Memoirs of the Reign of George III: From His Accession to the Peace of Amiens, Vol. 3 (Nabu Press, 2010), 451.

8. Erica Ekrem, “Transcript: Ella Noah Bancroft on the Intelligence of Our Intimacy / 224,” For the Wild, March 5, 2021. https://forthewild.world/podcast-transcripts/ella-noah-bancroft-on-the-intelligence-of-our-intimacy-224.

9. Swami Satyananda Saraswati, Kundalini Tantra (Satyananda Ashram, 1985).

10. Pankaj Mishra, From the Ruins of Empire, 101.

11. Shridhar Sharma, “Psychiatry, Colonialism and Indian Civilization: A Historical Appraisal,” Indian Journal of Psychiatry 48, no. 2 (2006): 109–12. https://doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.31600.

12. Slimani, Sex and Lies, 106.

13. Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Continuum, 2005), 140.

14. Mishra, From the Ruins of Empire, 77.

15. Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 55.

16. Slimani, Sex and Lies, 38.

17. Slimani, Sex and Lies, 95.

18. Slimani, Sex and Lies, 118.

19. Roberto Calasso, Literature and the Gods (Vintage International/Knopf Doubleday, 2002), 176.

20. Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 69.

Chapter 12: On Divination

1. Kenneth Johnson, “Buran of Baghdad: An Astrological Woman in the Early Middle Ages,” Geocosmic Journal (Autumn 2006): 29–33. https://theastrologypodcast.com/articles/Johnson-Buran-Of-Baghdad.pdf.

2. Jessica Dore, Tarot for Change: Using the Cards for Self-Care, Acceptance, and Growth (Penguin Books, 2021), 7.

3. Dore, Tarot for Change, 47.

4. Dore, Tarot for Change, 92.

5. Dore, Tarot for Change, 43.

6. Swami Satyananda Saraswati, Kundalini Tantra (Satyananda Ashram, 1985), 18.

7. Johnson, “Buran of Baghdad,” 29–33.

Chapter 13: Who Is Wellness For?

1. Brandon Baker, “The Language of Climate Change—and the Anthropocene,” Penn Today, February 5, 2019. https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/language-climate-change-and-anthropocene (accessed 2/15/22).

2. The Red Nation, The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth (Common Notions, 2021), 19.

3. The Red Nation, The Red Deal, 20.

4. Sarah Jaquette Ray, “Climate Anxiety Is an Overwhelmingly White Phenomenon,” Scientific American, March 21, 2021. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-unbearable-whiteness-of-climate-anxiety/.

5. The Red Nation, The Red Deal, 20.

6. Ray, “Climate Anxiety Is an Overwhelmingly White Phenomenon.”

7. Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass (Tantor Media, Inc., 2016), 307.

8. Ray, “Climate Anxiety Is an Overwhelmingly White Phenomenon.”

9. Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 338.

10. Maxine Bédat, Unraveled: The Life and Death of a Garment (New York: Portfolio, 2021), 17.

11. Bédat, Unraveled, 19.

12. Maya Tiwari Bri. The Path of Practice: A Woman’s Book of Ayurvedic Healing (Wellspring/Ballantine, 2001), 72.

Chapter 14: On Degrowth

1. “Gerboise Bleue (Nuclear Test),” Wikipedia, accessed September 8, 2021, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerboise_Bleue_(nuclear_test).

2. Malia Bouattia, “France’s Nuclear Colonial Legacy in Algeria,” The New Arab. https://english.alaraby.co.uk/opinion/frances-nuclear-colonial-legacy-algeria.

3. France’s Nuclear Colonial Legacy by Al Araby.

4. Bouattia, “France’s Nuclear Colonial Legacy in Algeria.”

5. W.E.B. Dubois, Darkwater: Voices from within the Veil (Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920), 30.

6. Ben Ehrenreich, “We’re Hurtling toward Global Suicide,” The New Republic, March 18, 2021. https://newrepublic.com/article/161575/climate-change-effects-hurtling-toward-global-suicide; Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable (University of Chicago Press, 2017), 128.

7. Ehrenreich, “We’re Hurtling toward Global Suicide.”

8. Ehrenreich, “We’re Hurtling toward Global Suicide.”

9. Anand Giridharadas, Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World (Alfred A. Knopf, 2018), 18.

10. Silvia Federici, Enduring Western Civilization: The Construction of the Concept of Western Civilization and Its “Others” (Praeger, 1995), 76.

11. Agha Shahid Ali, “Farewell,” Tumblr, 2012. https://allyourprettywords.tumblr.com/post/28990463502/farewell-agha-shahid-ali.

12. Simar Deol, “Wellness Influencers Owe the Indian Farmers Their Solidarity,” Bitch Media, June 1, 2020. https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/wellness-influencers-farmers-protest-solidarity.

13. Arundhati Roy, The End of Imagination (Haymarket Books, 2016), 243.

14. The Red Nation, The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth (Common Notions, 2021), 44.

15. The Red Nation, The Red Deal, 113.

16. Tyson Yunkaporta, Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World (HarperOne, 2020), 71.

17. Vandana Shiva, Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability, and Peace (North Atlantic Books, 2015), 37.

18. Vandana Shiva, “Seed Freedom: Toward an Earth Democracy, A Conversation with Vandana Shiva,” Interview by LinYee Yuan, Mold, November 11, 2021. https://thisismold.com/mold-magazine/vandana-shiva-seed-freedom-toward-an-earth-democracy.

19. Shiva, “Seed Freedom.”

20. Shiva, Earth Democracy, 24.

21. The Red Nation, The Red Deal, 108.

22. The Red Nation, The Red Deal, 99.

23. “American Indian Women and Reproductive Justice.” Indigenous Women Rising, March 25, 2017. https://www.iwrising.org/single-post/2017/03/24/american-indian-women-and-reproductive-justice.

24. Maxine Bédat, Unraveled: The Life and Death of a Garment (Portfolio, 2021), 36.

25. Bédat, Unraveled, 91.

26. Shiva, “Seed Freedom.”

27. P. Sainath, “Have India’s Farm Suicides Really Declined?,” BBC News, July 14, 2014. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-28205741.

28. Jason Hickel et al., “Rich Countries Drained $152tn from the Global South since 1960.” Al Jazeera, May 6, 2021. https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2021/5/6/rich-countries-drained-152tn-from-the-global-south-since-1960.

29. Hickel et al., “Rich Countries Drained $152tn from the Global South since 1960.”

30. Hickel et al., “Rich Countries Drained $152tn from the Global South since 1960.”

31. Bédat, Unraveled, 43.

32. Bédat, Unraveled, 43.

33. Riccardo Mastini, “Degrowth as a Concrete Utopia,” OpenDemocracy, November 7, 2018. https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/transformation/degrowth-as-concrete-utopia/.

34. Giorgos Kallis, Degrowth: A Vocabulary for a New Era, ed. Giacomo D’Alisa and Federico Demaria (Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015).

35. Bédat, Unraveled, 61.

36. Collin Chambers, Degrowth: An Environmental Ideology with Good Intentions, Bad Politics, Hampton Institute, July 29, 2021. https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/degrowth-an-environmental-ideology-with-good-intentions-bad-politics.

37. Riccardo Mastini, “Degrowth as a Concrete Utopia.”

38. Chambers, Degrowth.

39. Mastini, “Degrowth as a Concrete Utopia.”

40. Jason Hickel, “How to Achieve Full Decolonization,” New Internationalist, October 29, 2021. https://newint.org/features/2021/08/09/money-ultimate-decolonizer-fjf.

41. Hickel, “How to Achieve Full Decolonization.”

42. Budd L. Hall and Rajesh Tandon, “Decolonization of Knowledge, Epistemicide, Participatory Research and Higher Education,” Research for All 1, no. 1 (2017): 6–19. https://doi.org/10.18546/RFA.01.1.02.

43. Hall and Tandon, “Decolonization of Knowledge, Epistemicide, Participatory Research and Higher Education.”

44. “Experience Mpambo Afrikan Multiversity,” Mpambo Afrikan Multiversity. https://www.mpamboafrikanmultiversity.com/.

45. Emile Durkheim. Suicide, A Study in Sociology (Free Press, 1996).

46. The Red Nation, The Red Deal, 91.

47. “Tony Morrison on Trauma, Survival, and Finding Meaning,” YouTube video, posted by “CTFORUM,” November 13, 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xvJYrSsXPA.

Chapter 15: On Healing Our Wounds with the Feminine

1. Gabor Maté. When the Body Says No: Exploring the Stress-Disease Connection (Vermilion, 2019), 7.

2. Clarissa Pinkola Estés. Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype (Ballantine Books, 1995), 188.

3. Bethany Webster, Discovering the Inner Mother: A Guide to Healing the Mother Wound and Claiming Your Personal Power (William Morrow, 2021), 250.

4. Webster, Discovering the Inner Mother, 250.

5. Sebene Selassie, You Belong: A Call for Connection (HarperOne, 2021), 48.

6. The Red Nation. Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth (Common Notions, 2021), introduction.

7. William J. Ripple, Christopher Wolf, Thomas M. Newsome, Phoebe Barnard, and William R. Moomaw, “World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency,” BioScience 70, no 1 (January 2020): 8–12. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biz088.

8. Tyson Yunkaporta. Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World (HarperOne, 2020), 85.

9. Kamea Chayne, “Bayo Akomolafe Speaks about Slowing Down and Surrendering Human Centrality,” Green Dreamer, September 16, 2021. https://greendreamer.com/podcast/dr-bayo-akomolafe-the-emergence-network.

10. The Red Nation, The Red Deal, 37.

11. The Red Nation, The Red Deal, 24.

12. The Red Nation, The Red Deal, 87.

13. Yunkaporta, Sand Talk.

Conclusion: On Sacred Reciprocity

1. Anna-Sophie Springer and Paulo Tavares, “The Political Nature of the Forest: A Botanic Archaeology of Genocide,” The Word for World Is Still Forest (K. Verlag, 2017).

2. The Red Nation, Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth (Common Notions, 2021), 114.

3. Tyson Yunkaporta, Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World (HarperOne, 2020), 69.

4. Robin Wall Kimmerer, “The Serviceberry,” Emergence Magazine. https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/the-serviceberry/.

5. Mia Mingus, “The Four Parts of Accountability: How to Give a Genuine Apology, Part 1,” Leaving Evidence, July 2, 2020. https://leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2019/12/18/how-to-give-a-good-apology-part-1-the-four-parts-of-accountability/.

6. Kimmerer, “The Serviceberry.”

7. Kimmerer, “The Serviceberry.”

8. Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype (Ballantine Books, 1995), 201.