Resources

Healing Justice and Healing:

Image of the Perseids meteor shower (https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap171213.html).
Every molecule inside our bodies reflect those found outside us.

Reflections from the USSF by Susan Raffo and Cara Page

Reflections from Detroit: Transforming Wellness  by Cara Page

Transformative Change by Cara Page​

Just Healing by Tanuja Jugernauth

Communities of Care by Yashna Padamsee

Healing Justice is more than just words on a page by Twin Cities report interviewing healers of color

Healing Justice podcast held by Kate Werning

Embodied  Liberation podcast held by Sage Hayes

Just healing resource site

Healing justice, history and why I still believe in liberation by Susan Raffo (Healing justice blog)

Healing Justice Autumn Brown’s site

the courage to heal: even thinking we can access “healing” is a big courageous act as oppressed people sometimes by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Roots, runners and rhyzomes: on health and healing justice

Lifting up legacy place and healing an interview with Cara Page

Where Does a Healer’s Anger GO?: Beyond Love and Light  with Asali of Little Red Tarot

Self care and Black Intellectual Labor by Claire Garcia

Healing Justice is How We Can Sustain Black Lives  by Prentiss Hemphill

Back to the Basics of Self Care by Ashley Young

The Commodification of Self Care and The Terrible Art of Relentless Self Love // Take Care Herbals

How We Heal From Sexual Violence Against The Queer Community // Jennifer Patterson, Aishah Shahidah Simmons, Ida Hammer, Jen LaBarbera and Keiko Lane

Touch One Another // Reina Gossett & Grace Dunham

The Return of the Pleasure Activist // Adrienne Maree Brown

The Erotics of Activism Alexis Pauline Gumbs


Models of doing healing justice and/or transformative justice work:

Bad Ass Visionary Healers

Generative Somatics

Movement Strategy Center publications

Kindred: A Southern healing justice collective

Harriet’s Apothecary

Chicago Healing Justice Network

Third Root Community Health Center

Healing Justice Center


Making spaces accessible/disability justice:

Questions and thoughts on how to make a space truly accessible  by multiple authors

Making space accessible is an act of love by by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Re-envisioning the revolutionary body by Mia Mingus


The Medical Industrial Complex, Trauma & Anti-Violence Work:

Medical Industrial Complex Visual   by Mia Mingus, Cara Page, and Patty Berne

Historical Trauma and Unresolved Grief: Implications for Clinical Research and Practice with Indigenous Peoples
of the Americas by Dr. Maria Yellow Horse Braveheart

Decolonizing Trauma // Andrea Smith

Truth is a Fire I Could Not Hold // Deb Rox

Intergenerational Trauma // Highlights from Panel with Agustina Vidal (The Icarus Project), Cara Page (Audre Lorde Project, Kindred Southern Healing Justice), Julia Bennett (Harriet’s Apothecary, Third Root Community Health Center), and Jes Kelley (Dismantling Racism Works) [Video]

Rape Culture Syllabus // Laura Ciolkowski

Alternative Health Care Systems

Sick Around the World //PBS 4 of 5 people in the U.S. say that the healthcare system needs to fundamentally change. This documentary looks at the UK, Japan, Germany, Switzerland, Taiwan, to see how other national health care systems are working better than ours.