Healing Justice

Overview

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

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

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

By Philly Survivor Support Collective Original article found here

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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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Supporting a Survivor of Sexual Assault

By Supporting a Survivor of Sexual Assault Original article found here

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Healing justice, history and why I still believe in liberation

By Susan Raffo Original article found here The Medical Industrial Complex with gratitude to Mia Mingus, Patty Berne and Cara Page (plus others) Very simply, if

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Healing Justice Is How We Can Sustain Black Lives

By Prentis Hemphill, Contributor Director of Healing Justice at Black Lives Matter Original article found here Right now, those of us most vulnerable and least

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What It Means to Center “Healing Justice” in Wellness

BY KRYSTEN PECK Original article found here I think the allure of wellness has a lot to do with agency; there’s a sense of empowerment in

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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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Media

What is 'Healing Justice'?

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Feminist Futures Political Education Series: Healing Justice

By | Women’s March

In Session 5 of Feminist Futures, we join Cara Page, Tamika Middleton and Susan Raffo — leaders in the movement for healing justice — and discuss the importance of restorative healing right now. ABOUT FEMINIST FUTURES: https://womensmarch.com/feminist-future ABOUT WOMEN'S MARCH: Women’s March harnesses the political power of diverse women and their communities to create transformative social change. Women’s March is a women-led movement providing intersectional education on a diverse range of issues and creating entry points for new grassroots activists & organizers to engage in their local communities through trainings, outreach programs and events. Follow us on social media: Twitter: https://twitter.com/womensmarch Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/womensmarcho... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/womensmarch/

Healing Justice Podcast

By | Healing Justice Podcast

Trauma, Healing, and Collective Power with Generative Somatics

By | Healing Justice Podcast

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

By | Healing Justice Podcast – Cara Page & Susan Raffo

Healing Justice Podcast

By | Healing Justice Podcast

The healing in justice, the justice in healing

By | People’s Movement Center

Healing Justice as Cultural Organizing

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By | Prentis Hemphill

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Curriculum

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

TRAINING FOR PRACTITIONERS

By | TRACC4MOVEMENTS

At TRACC4MOVEMENTS we are committed to the practice of co-teaching and co-learning where in communitty we can grow in our own skills by learning from the wisdom of others in our movement trauma healer network. This inaugural series of training videos are available on a sliding scale basis to make it accessible to all who need the resources. These are meant to offer a beginning baseline and introduction to healers looking to support activists, organizers and communities related to social movement trauma in this moment.

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The Art of Flocking

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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.

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: 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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Transformative Mutual Aid Practices

By | tmapscommunity.net/

Transformative Mutual Aid Practices (T-MAPs) are a set of tools that provide space for building a personal “map” of wellness strategies, resilience practices, unique stories, and community resources. Creating a T-MAP will inspire you to connect your struggle to collective struggles. When we make and share our T-MAPs with others they become potent tools for healing and liberation.

Surviving the Apocalypse Together

By | Mad Queer Organizing Strategies

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Healing Justice Practice Spaces: A How-To Guide

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Healing Justice Practice Spaces: A How-To Guide

By | Autumn Brown & Maryse Mitchell-Brody

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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Tags: black lives matter, healing, trauma, grief, care, detroit, community care

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.

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

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.

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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