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white men sleep the best! Wellness as a Political Resistance Also in Germany Iris Rajanayagam and Mai Zeidani Yufanyi Due to Auschwitz, explicitly or implicitly, a provincial understanding of racism has emerged in German scholarship on

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white men sleep the best!

Wellness as a Political Resistance Also in Germany Iris Rajanayagam and Mai Zeidani Yufanyi

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“Due to Auschwitz, explicitly or implicitly, a provincial understanding

racism has emerged in German scholarship on racism, as well as within antiracist activism. […] In this frame German racism is regarded as a vicious exceptional phenomena which is incomparable to any other racial formation.”

Cengiz Barskanmaz, 2012: Critical Race Theory Beyond German Exceptionalism

Critical Race Theory symposium Europe. https://vimeo.com/66955298

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NPR: Want To Get A Great Night's Sleep? Head To South Dakota. Angus Chen. February 19, 2016

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“My depression is the direct result of anti- blackness and all of the cruelty that this country has shown to black people. My depression is political and should be treated as such”.

http://www.forharriet.com/2016/03/depression-is-political.html#ixzz4BXWX2UFM

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The individual hurt about a non-individual pain

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"Within white supremacist capitalist culture, black people are not supposed to be „well‟. The culture makes „wellness‟ a white

luxury. To choose against that culture, to

choose wellness, we must be dedicated to the truth”

hooks, b (1993). Sisters of the Yam. p. 29. South End Press, Boston (Mass.)

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Noah Sow, Wellness. https://vimeo.com/88439603

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First Step: talk about it

“In a place where Black lives and lives of Colour are constantly erased from public and political spheres, the mere raising of voices can be a strong act of resistance”

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Second Step: just do it!

Noticing the lack of wellness in our lives
Noticing the small moments of wellness
Spirituality as a Wellness act
Dare the „Fuck It‟!
Feel the moment
Acknowledge the pain

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Third Step: keep it in mind

Create your own safer space- Minimize aggressions
Community as wellness
Aspiring normality of wellness - A practice
Not expecting change by performing it
Act more - React less

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“borderless and brazen: a poem against the German “u-not y.” i will be African even if you want me to be german and i will be german even if my blackness does not suit you i will go yet another step further to the farthest edge where my sisters – where my brothers stand where

FREEDOM begins i will go yet another step further and another step and will return when i want and remain borderless and brazen

1990 for Jaqueline and Katharina Translation by May Ayim

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