Healing Justice

According to Cara Page, Healing Justice is a framework that identifies how we can holistically respond to and intervene on generational trauma and violence and to bring collective practices that can impact and transform the consequences of oppression on our bodies, hearts and minds. Through this framework we continue to build political and philosophical convergences of healing inside of liberation movements and organizations.

Healing Justice means we all deserve to heal on our terms and we confront oppressive systems that get in our way. We honor the trauma and resilience of generations that came before us and use interactive, daily practices that anyone can do. Healing Justice is a reminder to social movements that the concept of action should be expanded to support the self-determination, interdependence, resilience & resistance of those most impacted by oppression.Healing Justice is revolutionary in confronting the capitalist, colonial, individualistic paradigms that tell us we are alone when we seek out healing. – Young Women’s Empowerment Project and the Chicago Healing Justice Learning Circle

Articles

A modest Proposal for a Fair Trade Emotional Labor Economy

By Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha Original article found here Genesis The thing about being a working class or poor and/or disabled and/or parenting and/or Black, Indigenous or

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Communities of Care, Organizations for Liberation

By Yashna Maya Padamsee Original article found here Stop talking about Self-Care In the last 3 years as I talk about the Healing Justice (HJ) work

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A Not-So-Brief Personal History of the Healing Justice Movement, 2010–2016

By Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha Original article found here “Our movements themselves have to be healing, or there’s no point to them” —Cara Page, Kindred: Southern Healing Justice

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More healing, more of the time

By Dori Midnight Original article found here I am thinking a lot about B. Loewe’s article “An End to Self- Care” right now. I’m trying to

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Reflections from Detroit: Transforming Wellness & Wholeness

By Cara Page Original article found here Transforming Wellness & Wholeness I come by way of Black Seminole, African American and Austrian ancestry a mixed

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Healing Justice at the US Social Forum: A report from Atlanta, Detroit & Beyond

By Susan Raffo Original article found here

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What is healing justice and how would it affect this gathering?

By Susan Raffo Original article found here What is healing justice and how would it affect this gathering? Yesterday I got to record a podcast

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JAGERNAUTH: Just Healing

By Tanuja Jagernauth Original article found here We know people in pain. Members in pain, leaders in pain and even organizers in pain. While there is

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Healing Justice and the Potential for Community Based Science

By Aurora Levins Morales Original article found here These are series of speculations on what recent insights in a variety of areas of science could

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Our Relationships Keep Us Alive: Let’s Prioritize Them in 2018

By Ejeris Dixon Original article found here This story is the second in Truthout’s “Visions of 2018” series, in which activist leaders answer the question:

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Strategies for Survivors

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Navigating Justice For Sexual Abuse Survivors, When You’re a Prison Abolitionist and a Survivor

By Joshua Briond Original article found here I want to heal. I want to feel safe. I want us, as a society, to get to the

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Healing Justice Podcast

By | Healing Justice Podcast

Enter Healing Justice Podcast: an audio project to democratize access to inspiring stories, leaders, and practices to support our liberation. A story-mapping of the experiments of courageous and soulful change efforts thriving worldwide, sowing connection between us to build more of the deeply committed community we long for. Stories of resilience and humanity in the struggle are part of the medicine we need, and this project aims to be a campfire around which we can gather to share the tales of our victories and pain, visionary ideas, and generative debates. We're starting with a podcast sharing a new conversation and accompanying practice each week, and building toward a network that can connect, equip, and support us for the long haul. Let's see where we go together. Tags:podcast, audio, justice, surviving, healing

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Trauma, Healing, and Collective Power with Generative Somatics

By | Healing Justice Podcast

This week, we’re listening in as a brilliant crew from generative somatics has a powerful conversation about trauma, oppression, healing and organizing for structural change. They dig into the connections between personal, collective and structural transformation, and between healing and building collective power. They also explore the term Healing Justice and ask: what does embodied healing have to do with creating liberation? Tags:podcast , adrianne maree brown, pentis hemphill, spenta kandawalla, and staci k. haines, personal transformation, structural transformation, healing, collective power

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We Moved Like We Needed Each Other: A Lineage Of Healing Justice

By | Healing Justice Podcast – Cara Page & Susan Raffo

In this episode, healing justice leaders Cara Page and Susan Raffo join host Kate Werning for a conversation about the origins of the contemporary framework of healing justice, stories and learnings from early collaborations in the South and at the Atlanta and Detroit US Social Forums, how nothing is just an issue - everything we care about deeply ties to our embodiment, the importance of safety, and the fine lines between ownership, appropriation, co-optation, and trust. Tags:Cara Page, Susan Raffo, Kate Werning, healing justice, Atlanta , Detroit US Social Forum, embodiment, safety, appropriation, co-optation, trust, podcast

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Healing Justice Podcast

By | Healing Justice Podcast

Enter Healing Justice Podcast: an audio project to democratize access to inspiring stories, leaders, and practices to support our liberation. A story-mapping of the experiments of courageous and soulful change efforts thriving worldwide, sowing connection between us to build more of the deeply committed community we long for. Stories of resilience and humanity in the struggle are part of the medicine we need, and this project aims to be a campfire around which we can gather to share the tales of our victories and pain, visionary ideas, and generative debates. We're starting with a podcast sharing a new conversation and accompanying practice each week, and building toward a network that can connect, equip, and support us for the long haul. Let's see where we go together. Tags:podcast, audio, justice, surviving, healing

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The healing in justice, the justice in healing

By | People’s Movement Center

Healing Justice as Cultural Organizing

By | Mic Check! Podcast

What is the glue that binds our resistance work? How does healing justice fit into our resistance for the long haul? We sat down with Kifu Faruq of the Icarus Project to discuss healing justice as a foundational part of organizing and activism work. As we're witnessing the philanthropy field moving more funds towards healing justice work, we want to make sure the message is loud and clear that healing justice funding needs to be sustainable. The Icarus Project is an Own Our Power Fund and Mobilize Power Fund grantee.

Fortification

By | Prentis Hemphill

In our final conversation for Season 3, Caitlin spoke with Prentis Hemphill. The conversation touches on complicating innocence and guilt, transformative justice practices, movement culture and patterns and much more. Check it out. Prentis Hemphill is movement facilitator, Somatics teacher and practitioner, and writer living and working at the convergence of healing, individual and collective transformation, and political organizing. Prentis spent many years working with powerful movements and organizations, most recently as the Healing Justice Director at Black Lives Matter Global Network. referenced in this episode BOLD (Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity) generative somatics Healing work & collaboration with Francisca Porchas Coronado & Mark-Anthony Johnson read more about Prentis on their website

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Resource Guide to Trauma-Informed Human Services

By | Administration for Children & Families

The Administration for Children and Families, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administrations, the Administration for Community Living, the Offices of the Assistant Secretary for Health and the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation at HHS have worked together to develop this Guide to Trauma-Informed Human Services. The guide is intended to provide an introduction to the topic of trauma, a discussion of why understanding and addressing trauma is important for human services programs, and a “road map” to find relevant resources.

Tags: toxic stress, microaggressions, historical violence, trauma, human development, resources for practioners, resislience

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Healing Justice: A Guide For Community Building and Collective Strategizing for Safer and Peaceful Communities

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A Guide For Community Building and Collective Strategizing for Safer and Peaceful Communities

By | Michelle Emery

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The Art of Flocking: Cultural Stewardship In the Parks

The Art of Flocking Curriculum & Documentary Film The Art of Flocking: Cultural Stewardship in the Parks is a celebration of Chicago’s community-based art practices nurtured within the Chicago Park District. Hosted in partnership with the Terra Foundation for American Art, Art Design Chicago, this community arts education and cultural organizing series was inspired by adrienne maree brown’s Emergent Strategy. Grounded in Octavia Butler’s speculative fiction and biomimicry; our pedagogy includes themes of interdependence, decentralization, resilience, transformation, and radical imagination. Created by Chicago-based artists and educators of color, the curriculum uplifts legacies of Mexican-American muralist and public artist, Hector Duarte, and Sapphire and Crystals, Chicago’s first and longest standing Black women’s artist collective. Launched in the Spring of 2018, The Art of Flocking blossomed within two beloved Chicago Park District programs. ArtSeed, which engages children ages 3+ and families in 18 parks and playgrounds, and Young Cultural Stewards Fellowship, a multimedia program aimed at youth ages 12-14 with hubs in each of Chicago’s three geographic regions. The Art of Flocking engaged 2,500 youth and families with Chicago’s community-based art history and legacy through the lens of artists whose practices are rooted in social and environmental justice. The Art Flocking hosted 216 public programs at 18 parks in the summer of 2018 as well as three community-based exhibition in Willye White Park in Rogers Park, Piotrowski Park in Little Village, and Tuley Park in Chatham. The Art of Flocking culminated in a celebration at Burnham Wildlife Corridor’s Gathering Spaces: La Ronda Parakata. The Art of Flocking was developed into a curriculum and documentary film, which will be screened as part of the Chicago OnScreen Festival in August 2019. The Art of Flocking is part of Art Design Chicago, an initiative of the Terra Foundation for American Art exploring Chicago’s art and design legacy, with presenting partner The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation.

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Finding Belonging Curriculum

The Belonging Initiative is a collaboration between Young Cultural Stewards and Tonika Johnon. This collaboration between ArtSeed, YCS Fellows, Inferno, and TRACE has engaged over 6,000 youth across 100 Chicago parks to explore questions around belonging, acceptance, and interconnection. Throughout the summer of 2019, youth worked in partnership with teaching artists to interrogate their parks and neighborhoods and critically reflect on boundaries and barriers as well as the places of welcoming and sanctuary within our hyper- segregated city.

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Healing Justice Practice Spaces: A How-To Guide

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Healing Justice Practice Spaces: A How-To Guide

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Just Healing Resource Site

By | Just Healing

Autumn Brown is a mother, organizer, theologian, artist, and facilitator. She is a founding member of the Rock Dove Collective, a radical community health exchange which works to create accessible community care, and to address issues of burn-out and chronic illness within the social justice movement by promoting health and wellness as core aspects of transformative change. Autumn has been a part of bring health and healing justice to the Allied Media Conference since 2009, and spearheaded the development of the 2011 Healing Justice Practice Space.

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Nineteen Sixty Nine

By | An Ethnic Studies Journal

nineteen sixty nine ("NSN") is the official student journal of the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. It is published electronically once per academic year, and is available through the University of California's eScholarship open access e-publishing initiative and the California Digital Library. The journal's name refers to the year in which Ethnic Studies was established at UC Berkeley as a direct result of student activism through the Third World Liberation Front. Thus, nineteen sixty nine simultaneously reminds us of our origins and gestures towards the critical possibilities of Ethnic Studies for the present and the future. Corresponding with the grassroots origins of Ethnic Studies, the idea for starting an Ethnic Studies student journal was first conceived during various feedback sessions held between students and the Department of Ethnic Studies during the 2009-2010 academic year. Due to student interest, the Department appointed a graduate student to head this initiative in 2010 and the journal was officially launched in 2011.

As such, the journal is managed and edited by both undergraduate majors and graduate students in the Ethnic Studies program at UC Berkeley with minimal direction from the Department and faculty. All submissions to the journal will be reviewed by a committee comprised of both undergraduate and graduate students in Ethnic Studies (and its affiliated programs), as well as our faculty consultants.

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Resources

By | PEOPLE’S MOVEMENT CENTER

For more articles and resources, head over to the PMC Facebook page. We have a continual flow of things that might interest you. We also know that healing justice is just a lens that combines with racial justice, economic justice, environmental justice, transformative justice, gender justice, and disability justice. These are just things that stood out for us. If there is anything you think needs to be on this site, let us know at peoplesmovementcenter@gmail.com.

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Resilience & Healing

By | INITIATIVE FOR SAFETY & JUSTICE

"Resiliency is the act of recovering and adapting in the face of trauma, stress and negative life altering events. We become more resilient when we teach empathy and self-awareness, celebrate our accomplishments, and demonstrate self-efficacy." - Lysetta Hurge-Putnam, Executive Director, Independence House

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Voices from the Ground

By | Astraea Foundation

THE ASTRAEA LESBIAN FOUNDATION FOR JUSTICE is the only philanthropic organization working exclusively to advance LGBTQI human rights around the globe. We support brilliant and brave grantee partners in the U.S and internationally who challenge oppression and seed change. We work for racial, economic, social, and gender justice, because we all deserve to live our lives freely, without fear, and with dignity.

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Healing Justice and Holistic Security Frameworks

By | Astraea Foundation

Healing justice and holistic security are frameworks that have emerged and evolved in relationship to place-based organizing. They are concepts and practices that we, as funders, are seeing more and more in many different cultural communities and movement spaces.

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Healing Justice Toolkit - Dignity and Power Now

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Dignity and Power Now!

By | Healing Justice Responders

Healing requires that we pay attention to the whole body, this includes the emotional, spiritual, and psychological bodies. Today we are launching a Healing Justice Toolkit that outlines the past seven years of DPN’s Healing Justice work. This toolkit is a communal offering that joins the lineage of healing justice work that communities across the world have engaged in for survival, strategy, liberation, and assurance to future generations. It is important to acknowledge that there has been generations of work done throughout the U.S. and internationally that has fed this current iteration of liberation work, which we call Healing Justice. Healing Justice’s birth story is ancient, and I want to honor the past twenty years of work being led by organizers in the South, including organizations like Kindred, SONG, and the work of Cara Page, Susan Rafo, Adela Nieves, and many more.

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Articles

Healing Justice Podcast

Trauma, Healing, and Collective Power with Generative Somatics

We Moved Like We Needed Each Other: A Lineage Of Healing Justice

Healing Justice Podcast

The healing in justice, the justice in healing

Healing Justice as Cultural Organizing

Fortification

Resource Guide to Trauma-Informed Human Services

A Guide For Community Building and Collective Strategizing for Safer and Peaceful Communities

The Art of Flocking: Cultural Stewardship In the Parks

Finding Belonging Curriculum

Healing Justice Practice Spaces: A How-To Guide

Just Healing Resource Site

Nineteen Sixty Nine

Resources

Resilience & Healing

Voices from the Ground

Healing Justice and Holistic Security Frameworks

Dignity and Power Now!