I was interested in Lavender’s explanation of one of the physical components of bodily felt sense (BFS) when she quotes Barnett & Madison as ‘typically forming in the trunk area of the body, as an unclear but tangible sensation…if attended to directly where it forms in the body, a felt sense can respond with new meanings, confirmed with shifts in bodily feeling.”
I’m wondering how using felt sense relates to gender, race, ability, and other external markers and not just emotions – Can one “feel one’s gender in the trunk of one’s body?” If gender/race/ability are not JUST physical or JUST concepts, if they’re not solely socially constructed and also not solely the untouched internal (direct referent)?, how can one use felt sense to access the ways we want to be read and perceived in the world – particularly as writers, where we get to write and create ourselves?
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