Free Resources for Managing Trauma -- 17-31 August 2020

Sounds True was founded in 1985 to "wake up the world by distributing spiritual wisdom." It now publishes "wellness" audio, particularly meditation and therapy tools.

They're currently hosting a Trauma Skills Summit. Each day they feature professionally-captioned video talks from two or three speakers, with backgrounds in trauma healing, mindfulness, and chronic conditions. Until 31 August, the content is free. The teachers are counselors, yogini, doctors, dancers, spiritual guides and healers from a variety of backgrounds -- check out the list of Trauma Summit Teachers. Use that link to register with an email address for free access until the end of August.

The Trauma Skills Summit started on the 17th, so here's what's already available

If you want to get downloads (or extend access after the end of the month), you can pay them $147.

ETA: video only, no books/transcripts

Image Description for the Current Political & Cultural Moment

Talk Description to Me is a newish podcast from Canada. Their mission is "Where the visuals of current events and the world around us get hashed out in description-rich conversations." Christine Malec, a perpetually inquisitive member of the blind and partially sighted community who’s always wondering about something, talks with J.J. Hunt, an Audio Describer.

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The 30-minute episodes cover a wide range.

Episode 1 — the image behind the protests — details the video where Derek Chauvin murders George Floyd in Minneapolis. I appreciate that they face up to the impossibility of "neutrality," which is often touted to audio/image describers.

Episode 4 — Sports in the COVID era, and Bob & Doug’s new Space-age look — delves into the crowd noise "sweeteners" that now accompany baseball games as well as the actual Hollywood set designers for the SpaceX spacesuits. Since I know zilch about baseball, I appreciated the context for the stylized drama between managers and catchers.

boost: Urban Planners Create Segregation in Africa via Nursing Clio

Reliably, nursingclio_feed expands my knowledge about the intersection of public health and oppressive systems:

Architecting a “New Normal”? Past Pandemics and the Medicine of Urban Planning

by TONY YEBOAH, JENNIFER HART, and NATE PLAGEMAN

We are historians of the West African nation of Ghana, each currently writing a history of urbanism in a different major city (Kumasi, Accra, and Sekondi-Takoradi, respectively). In our research efforts – and in those of many other urban scholars examining African contexts – we’ve repeatedly seen how medical experts and modernist urban planners exploited outbreaks of disease to legitimize their emerging systems of technical expertise and advance white supremacy, global capitalism, and imperial order. ( 200 more words )