Becky Thompson is an anti-racist and feminist, writer, professor, yoga instructor, and activist. She lives in Boston, where she is a Professor of Sociology at Simmons College. Becky's work centers on embodiment, trauma, memory, and intersections of identity, thinking about creative, collective, cultural, and resistant ways in which people express themselves. Her most recent book, *"Survivors on the Yoga Mat: Stories for Those Healing from Trauma,"* considers ~yoga~ as a tool for survivors and those who love us. "Survivors" is available for pre-sale now on Amazon and will be released on September 9, 2014.Connect with Becky:www.beckythompsonyoga.comfacebook.com/beckythompsonyoga@beckytyogaBecky Thompson's previous books include:--> Fingernails Across the Chalkboard: Poetry and Prose on HIV/AIDS From the Black Disapora (co-edited with Randall Horton and Michael Hunter, Third World Press, 2007)--> Zero is the Whole I Fall into at Night (Main Street Rag Publishing Company, 2011), finalist for the Main Street Poetry Prize and winner of the 2011 Creative Justice Chapbook Poetry Prize.--> When the Center is on Fire (co-authored with Diane Harriford, University of Texas Press, 2008)--> A Promise and A Way of Life (University of Minnesota Press, 2001)--> Mothering without a Compass (University of Minnesota Press, 2000).