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In societies that often demand toughness and encourage isolation, these films reveal the quiet power of care, vulnerability, and connection. Tenderness Is a Revolution gathers stories of people finding healing through friendship, community, and unexpected moments of grace. Across generations and geographies, these characters discover that gentleness can be transformative, and that choosing compassion for ourselves and for one another can be a radical act.
In this chapter of Aaron Johnson’s “Dark and Tender”, ten Black men journey to the Big Island of Hawaii to workshop the touch and listening practices from the Chronically UnderTouched (CUT) Project. Part cinéma vérité, part elucidated teaching, the film slows down with the men as they reclaim and rebuild platonic intimacy and trust. Holding space for each other, they shake off violent narratives of Black masculinity and seek to restore a vital and basic human need in their lives – tender touch.
Aaron has created the Chronically UnderTouched (CUT) Project — basic strategies to bring a black body from being Chronically UnderTouched to a state of touch balance — as part of the lifelong journey of interrupting oppressive systems that make touch balance a radical action.
In societies that often demand toughness and encourage isolation, these films reveal the quiet power of care, vulnerability, and connection. Tenderness Is a Revolution gathers stories of people finding healing through friendship, community, and unexpected moments of grace. Across generations and geographies, these characters discover that gentleness can be transformative, and that choosing compassion for ourselves and for one another can be a radical act.
In this chapter of Aaron Johnson’s “Dark and Tender”, ten Black men journey to the Big Island of Hawaii to workshop the touch and listening practices from the Chronically UnderTouched (CUT) Project. Part cinéma vérité, part elucidated teaching, the film slows down with the men as they reclaim and rebuild platonic intimacy and trust. Holding space for each other, they shake off violent narratives of Black masculinity and seek to restore a vital and basic human need in their lives – tender touch.
Aaron has created the Chronically UnderTouched (CUT) Project — basic strategies to bring a black body from being Chronically UnderTouched to a state of touch balance — as part of the lifelong journey of interrupting oppressive systems that make touch balance a radical action.