2 Power over bodies

Black people know well how power can bear upon the body – in negative and positive ways. Power, when experienced positively – such as through demonstrations of solidarity at work or in activism – can feel joyous on the body as you make authentic human connections with others. You will return to such positive forms of power in Week 2. Negatively, power can work on the body in many ways, some of which you will explore as power over movement, space and life. By identifying ways in which the body negatively experiences power, it becomes possible to identify a focus for positive forms of Black leadership in the future.