Beyond Self-Care and Wellness Retreats: What Healing Justice Requires by Iris Garcia & Somar Nowak

"Healing justice is a political strategy born from the brilliance of BIPOC organizers in the US South to transform collective grief and generational trauma resulting from colonization, systemic violence, and oppression. Healing justice is not new; it is memory work. It calls for us to look back and honor the legacy and ancestral traditions of those who came before us, those who built strategies to care for each other and survive their political contexts."

"The healing justice framework emerged in the mid-2000s in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina while the US was waging war abroad and pushing massive surveillance at home.” There's a strong need for collective care to address our mental hardships from the root up through these movements. So, the question is, how can we integrate healing into sustainable traditions, tools, and strategies? That's some of the discourse surrounding this article! Click the button below to learn more!

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