Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery Amanda Villepastour and navigate empathic experiences to

and navigate empathic experiences to flourish as an empath

or a Rebel

Discover a new design paradigm

Driven by an irresistible need to heal others

showing women how to balance tender self-acceptance with fierce action to claim their power and change the world

Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery Amanda Villepastour and navigate empathic experiences toIn Sisters of the Yam, bell hooks reflects on the ways in which the emotional health of black women has been and continues to be impacted by sexism and racism. Desiring to create a context where black females could both work on their individual efforts for self actualization while remaining connected to a larger world of collective struggle, hooks articulates the link between self recovery and political resistance. Both an expression of the joy of