TY  - GEN
N2  - This article is included in the digital library as part of a partnership between the OHSU Library and the Northwest Narrative Medicine Collaborative to share Narrative Medicine curriculum and the items used in those teaching sessions. For additional information about how the article is used in teaching and a community driven context, please visit &lt;a href="https://nwnmcollaborative.org/library/"&gt;Accessible Narrative Medicine website&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Kiese Laymon is a Black southern writer from Jackson, Mississippi. He founded "The Catherine Coleman Literary Arts and Justice Initiative," a program housed in the Margaret Walker Center at Jackson State University, in order to help young people in Jackson feel more at ease reading, writing, revising, and sharing their work on their own terms and in their own communities. Laymon is currently the Libbie Shearn Moody Professor of English and Creative Writing at Rice University. (Source: &lt;a href="https://www.kieselaymon.com/"&gt;kieselaymon.com&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;b&gt;Whenever you use this item in your own work, please use the citation listed in the Related Work Citation section below.&lt;/b&gt;
AB  - This article is included in the digital library as part of a partnership between the OHSU Library and the Northwest Narrative Medicine Collaborative to share Narrative Medicine curriculum and the items used in those teaching sessions. For additional information about how the article is used in teaching and a community driven context, please visit &lt;a href="https://nwnmcollaborative.org/library/"&gt;Accessible Narrative Medicine website&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Kiese Laymon is a Black southern writer from Jackson, Mississippi. He founded "The Catherine Coleman Literary Arts and Justice Initiative," a program housed in the Margaret Walker Center at Jackson State University, in order to help young people in Jackson feel more at ease reading, writing, revising, and sharing their work on their own terms and in their own communities. Laymon is currently the Libbie Shearn Moody Professor of English and Creative Writing at Rice University. (Source: &lt;a href="https://www.kieselaymon.com/"&gt;kieselaymon.com&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;b&gt;Whenever you use this item in your own work, please use the citation listed in the Related Work Citation section below.&lt;/b&gt;
T1  - My head is a part of my body
DA  - 2020
AU  - Laymon, Kiese Makeba
L1  - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/42199/files/My%20Head%20Is%20a%20Part%20of%20My%20Body%20and%20My%20Middle%20Name%20is%20Makeba%20by%20Kiese%20Laymon.pdf
PB  - The Root
LA  - eng
PY  - 2020
ID  - 42199
L4  - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/42199/files/My%20Head%20Is%20a%20Part%20of%20My%20Body%20and%20My%20Middle%20Name%20is%20Makeba%20by%20Kiese%20Laymon.pdf
KW  - Social Discrimination
KW  - Family
KW  - Racism
KW  - Survival
KW  - Psychotherapy
KW  - Black identity
KW  - discrimination
KW  - living with mental illness
KW  - radical self acceptance
KW  - resistance
KW  - self worth
TI  - My head is a part of my body
Y1  - 2020
L2  - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/42199/files/My%20Head%20Is%20a%20Part%20of%20My%20Body%20and%20My%20Middle%20Name%20is%20Makeba%20by%20Kiese%20Laymon.pdf
LK  - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/42199/files/My%20Head%20Is%20a%20Part%20of%20My%20Body%20and%20My%20Middle%20Name%20is%20Makeba%20by%20Kiese%20Laymon.pdf
UR  - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/42199/files/My%20Head%20Is%20a%20Part%20of%20My%20Body%20and%20My%20Middle%20Name%20is%20Makeba%20by%20Kiese%20Laymon.pdf
ER  -