bQueer critique, queer practice embodied teachings for healing from trauma and social injustice.b pJacoby Ballard provides an empowering and affirming guide to embodied healing through yoga and the dharma, grounded in the brilliance, resilience, and lived experiences of queer folks.brbrPart I deconstructs the ways mainstream yoga perpetuates queer- and transphobia and other systemic oppressions, exploring the intersections of yoga, capitalism, cultural appropriation, and sexual violence. Ballard also addresses the trauma--complex, vicarious, historical, and collective--perpetuated against queer communities. In response, he offers tools for self-compassion, tonglen, lovingkindness, and grounding, and helps readers explore questions like br b-b What is trauma How is it a product of injustice--and how can healing it create justicebr b-b The world won't stop being homo- and transphobic, so how do I encounter that in a way that does the least harmbr b-b How do we love what is uniquely trans