Trace in ripetizione

una poesia auto-etnografica

Autori

  • Britton Williams Drama Therapy, New York University, USA

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15845/voices.v21i1.3227

Parole chiave:

Black aesthetics, Black clients, Black clinicians, Black expression(s), Black creative resistance, racial oppression, racialized violence, (re)imagining care

Abstract

Abstract  

Al momento della stesura di questo articolo, il mondo è alle prese con una pandemia globale. Il COVID-19 ha raggiunto ogni angolo del mondo. L'impatto è stato devastante sia in contesti individuali che collettivi. Questa poesia auto-etnografica è un'esplorazione creativa dell'esperienza o delle esperienze di vita di una donna di colore all’interno e attraverso il COVID-19, e la sopportazione dell'oppressione razziale. Si intreccia fra tempo, spazio e luogo, riconoscendo l'interconnessione fra personale, professionale e socio-culturale. Questo brano amplifica intenzionalmente e affronta le tensioni emergenti e conflittuali, senza cercare di risolverle. 

Biografia autore

Britton Williams, Drama Therapy, New York University, USA

Britton Williams is a Black woman. Drama Therapist. A myriad of hyphens and ands. She is a teacher and student. A thinker and dreamer. She is urgently concerned with the possibilities that live with/in radical (re)imagining and the inextricable connectedness of healing and liberation. And...

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Pubblicato

2021-04-20

Come citare

Williams, B. (2021). Trace in ripetizione: una poesia auto-etnografica. Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy, 21(1). https://doi.org/10.15845/voices.v21i1.3227