Join us for our September 3, 2026 Healing Hour!

The Body as Archive: Trauma, Power, and Decolonial Repair in Academia

A 90-Minute Virtual Healing Hour for BIPOC Women in Academia

This Healing Hour invites BIPOC women in academia into a space of restoration that does not ask for performance, disclosure, or explanation. Instead, it offers a grounded, collective practice for understanding trauma and body-based awareness as decolonial acts of repair within institutions that have long demanded our endurance while denying our humanity.

For many of us, academic life has required a quiet disciplining of the body—learning to override fatigue, emotion, grief, and intuition to remain legible, productive, and “professional.” What often gets named as burnout, imposter syndrome, or stress is not individual failure, but the accumulated imprint of institutional histories carried in the body.

In this Healing Hour, we will explore how returning attention to the body—neck down, breath by breath—is not self-indulgence, but an act of intellectual, political, and spiritual reclamation. The body will be approached as an archive: holding memory, survival strategies, ancestral knowledge, and unfinished grief.

This session is designed to meet participants exactly where they are. There is no expectation to share personal stories. Participation is always invitational. What matters is presence, consent, and the possibility of feeling less alone.

Facilitator

Dr. Roksana Badruddoja is a scholar, writer, and embodied healing practitioner whose work bridges critical race feminism, trauma studies, and decolonial body-based practices. A tenured professor of sociology, she has spent over two decades working with BIPOC communities inside and outside higher education, exploring how bodies carry institutional memory—and how repair becomes possible through presence, consent, and relational care.