When was the last time you had thoughtful, platonic touch for three minutes?
The Chronically UnderTouched (CUT) Project is the body of thinking born out of the development and tracking of the Chronically UnderTouched trauma story.
It’s a movement supporting People of the Global Majority — people of color — to access healthy, nourishing, platonic touch in a culture that, in the United States, denies it at every turn. Tender touch means seeing people as full human beings. It is the antidote to the invention of The Black Brute archetype.
We are making a documentary film, offering training for touch activists, touring an art installation, and incorporating earth building as part of our own touch plans.
Touching, holding, cuddling is a life-saving act.
Aaron Johnson,
Holistic Resistance & Grief to Action
Tender, thoughtful touch & holding, to the Black male body, is so dangerous to white supremacy that they use all matters of violence to erase this practice.
Select Media