Re-member: What Our Bodies Carry was a two-day workshop that used writing and movement to explore the traces of colonial and imperial legacies in our bodies. The workshop encouraged participants to engage in dialogue about how our bodies might store different emotions and each portraying it differently through non-verbal cues. Participants also discussed various emotions captured in photographs and portrayed it through their body movements.
During this 2-day workshop, participants slowed down and listened to their bodies. Through movement, rhythm and shared reflections, they turned inward and noticed how their surroundings shape the way they move, feel, and respond.
As the world continues to witness ongoing violence and genocide, it was important to ask how these realities live inside our bodies. Participants sat with difficult questions like why does a hand rise so instinctively during a protest? What kind of power, anger, or hope moves through that gesture? Where do stress, rage, and grief settle within ?
This workshop was less about finding clear answers and more about noticing, questioning, and staying present with what our bodies remember. Bringing together movement, writing, and shared presence, they were reminded that gathering in this way can itself be a form of resistance.
