Body Becoming, Roberto Che Espinoza
Body Becoming, Roberto Che Espinoza
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Body Becoming
A Path to Our Liberation

Author: Roberto Ché Espinoza

Narrator: Robyn Henderson-Espinoza

Unabridged: 6 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/19/2022


Synopsis

The body that Robyn Henderson-Espinoza inhabits is a nonbinary body, a trans body, a body in two races—and a body continually in discovery. Theirs is also a body on sojourn invested in experience, body understanding, and engagement in and for human thriving. Henderson-Espinoza relates coming into a new body story, beginning with the deep emotional work of connecting the abstract intelligence of their mind with their body's intelligence, to explore the relationship between living and becoming, doing and listening.

Combining that deep listening and living with their work in activism, Body, Becoming offers us a way of understanding the body beyond constructions—political or medical-industrial-complex defined—toward cultivating the body as important in our endeavors to build a more inclusive vision for democracy. Mixing memoir and faith, somatics theory and body practice, Henderson-Espinoza steers us through territory both familiar and difficult—as we discover embodiment as the primary place of deep wisdom, where culture shifts originate and materialize—and a better world becomes, as we too become.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jenna on July 24, 2022

I would give a 3.5 rating. I’ve been following Dr Robyn Henderson-Espinoza on social media and have appreciated their theology and perspective as a trans-queer Latinx person. I was very curious to read their book as there has been much more focus on embodiment both within the field of theology and p......more

Goodreads review by Susan on May 09, 2022

I’ve been on a parallel journey of coming to terms with my body, my self for many years now working with an amazingly intuitive, insightful therapist/life coach/friend who lent me this book to read. He thought I’d be interested. Actually, he already knew I would. I was not familiar with the term emb......more

Goodreads review by Ray on January 24, 2024

I soaked up every minute of this book! Wowow. I felt so seen and valued and understood. Roberto feels like a gentle guide for people like me who are venturing out into their bodies with curiosity and unlabeled in the world of the unknown. I read this at the perfect time as I felt myself slipping int......more

Goodreads review by Maggie on August 15, 2023

Listen, I LOVE the premise of this book, and I have appreciated following Henderson-Espinoza on Twitter. I agree with so much of their theology and worldview. I just found the writing to be a little hard to read - maybe it was the style, I'm not sure. The content was also fairly repetitive, which is......more

Goodreads review by Nicki on June 21, 2022

Body Becoming by Dr. Robyn Henderson-Espinoza is essential reading. Weaving personal narrative and vision casting for participatory democracy, emancipatory politics, and democratic justice, Dr. Robyn Henderson-Espinoza leads readers on a journey into connection and healing. I highly recommend Body B......more