queer attachment: an anti-oppression toolkit for relational healing

by Leah Jo Carnine, Fizz Perkal

Fizz Perkal and Leah Jo Carnine, drawn to self-help books for their growth tools, felt excluded by frameworks predominantly written by straight, white, cis men. Their work combines mainstream attachment theory, trauma study, and nervous system knowledge, emphasizing insights from queer and PoC practitioners. This zine provides a healing guide rooted in social justice, respectful of diverse identities, and mindful of mental health's connection to oppression.

Genres: Relationships, Mental Health

48 pages, Unknown Binding

Published February 12, 2020

Reviews

[Emily · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was a fantastic summary of a lot of important information around trauma, attachment, and relationships.

[Ruby Smith · Rating 5 out of 5]

Just what I needed. This zine has been a great resource for me to scratch the surface on a number of things I often want to look into, but get overwhelmed when I start. It’s nice now being able to look at some of my old bookmarked pages in my browser with fresher eyeballs, kind of having a sort of syllabus for the class kinda overview thing to learn more stuff about attachment and trauma and healing!
It’s also really important how Leah Jo Carnine and Fizz Perkal have made it the whole point of the little book that this information is available in a not triggery way to everybody, which for this book meant non cis-het people in non-nuclear family type situations, since most stuff we can find about healing relational trauma tends to be pretty heteronormative and white and exclusionary in those ways. Highlighting some stuff about white fragility and how racism, capitalism, sexism, homophobia, etcetera create inter generational trauma. We didn’t learn about that in health class. Or history class
Super cool. Thanks fizz and leah jo

[Danielle · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good starting point coming from a great perspective