Becoming a Yam: Healing Narratives as Political Resistance in the Time of COVID-19

COVID-19 created a crisis that forced people to deal with the social, emotional, personal, and interpersonal impact of virus in United States. Simultaneously, Black continued be murdered victimized by systemic racism social injustice. Choosing wellness, self-recovery, self-care during global pandemonium surrounding pandemic serves as an act political resistance face oppression violence. The purpose this essay is explore authors’ embodied uses personal narratives centering work sisters yam: black women feminist theory, African-centered paradigms coping strategies healing pandemic.