Unlocking Us Podcast
You Are Your Best Thing
Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience
You Are Your Best Thing
Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience
Co-created with Tarana Burke, this anthology is a space to recognize and process the trauma of white supremacy, a space to be vulnerable and affirm the fullness of Black life and Black possibility, a space that gives Black humanity breathing room. Featuring essays by Jason Reynolds, Austin Channing Brown, Tanya Denise Fields, Kiese Makeba Laymon, Prentis Hemphill, Tracey Michae’l Lewis-Giggetts, Marc Lamont Hill, Keah Brown, Luvvie Ajayi Jones, Shawn A. Ginwright, Kaia Naadira, Deran Young, Sonya Renee Taylor, Irene Antonia Diane Reece, Yolo Akili Robinson, Laverne Cox, Jessica J. Williams, Aiko D. Bethea, and Imani Perry.
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Introduction to You Are Your Best Thing: A Conversation
Meet the Contributors
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Jason Reynolds
Between Us: A Reckoning with My Mother
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Austin Channing Brown
This Joy I Have
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![Tanya Fields]()
Tanya Denise Fields
Dirty Business: The Messy Affair of Rejecting Shame
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![Kiese Makeba Laymon]()
Kiese Makeba Laymon
My Head Is a Part of My Body and Other Notes on Crazy
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![Prentis Hemphill]()
Prentis Hemphill
The Wisdom of Process
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![Tracey Lewis Giggetts]()
Tracey Michae’l Lewis-Giggetts
Love Lifted Me: Subverting Shame Narratives and Legitimizing Vulnerability as a Mechanism for Healing Women in the Black Church
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![Marc Lamont Hill]()
Marc Lamont Hill
Never Too Much
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![Yeah Brown]()
Keah Brown
We Are Human Too: On Blackness, Vulnerability, Disability, and the Work Ahead
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![Luvvie Ajayi Jones]()
Luvvie Ajayi Jones
What’s in a Name?
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![Shawn Ginwright]()
Shawn A. Ginwright
The Blues of Vulnerability: Love and Healing Black Youth
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![Kaia Naadira]()
Kaia Naadira
Filling Every Page With Joy: Rewriting Trauma and Shame
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![Deran Young]()
Deran Young
Honoring Our Stories, Transforming Our Pain
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![Sonya Renee Taylor]()
Sonya Renee Taylor
Running Out of Gas
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![Irene Reece]()
Irene Antonia Diane Reece
My Journey: Vulnerability, Rage, and Being Black in the Art World
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![Yolo Robinson]()
Yolo Akili Robinson
Unlearning Shame and Remembering Love
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![Laverne Cox]()
Laverne Cox
Hurt People Hurt People
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![Jessica Williams]()
Jessica J. Williams
Black Surrender Within the Ivory Tower
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![Aiko Bethea]()
Aiko D. Bethea
Steps to Being Whole, on Your Terms
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![Imani Perry]()
Imani Perry
To You: Vulnerable Mother A Choreo-Essay
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![Tarana Burke]()
Tarana Burke
Where the Truth Rests
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![Toyin Ojih Odutola - Photo by Beth Wilkinson]()
Toyin Ojih Odutola
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