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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 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

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

“ 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

The individual hurt about a non-individual pain

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

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

“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” First Step: talk about 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 Second Step: just do it!

• 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 Third Step: keep it in mind

“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 o u r 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