Tender Touch: Lynching & the Unrested Installation
“I am trying to bring to surface, in an embodied way, an interruption to help the community I live in — the country I live in — really look at itself in a way that it doesn’t do on its own.”
— Aaron Johnson, Grief to Action & Holistic Resistance
On Tour Now
Meditation Series
Content Note: The video above contains historical images of lynching and other abuses.
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“These images are not the entire American story. But if we don’t address this trauma story, it will become the entire American story.”
Installation creation support, Mari Shibuya | Documentation, Alexandra “Ahlay” Blakely | Historical images from Without Sanctuary Lynching Photography in America