The Deep Wisdom of the Body: Dr. Robyn Henderson-Espinoza

The body that our guest, Dr. 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 invested in experience, body understanding, and engagement in and for human thriving.

Henderson-Espinoza talks to us about 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.

Their recent book, 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.

Robyn Henderson-Espinoza is a transqueer activist, Latinx scholar, and public theologian. They are the founder of the Activist Theology Project, a collaborative project committed to the collective work of social healing.