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Healing justice is a framework that aims to address the consequences of oppression and trauma through a community-centered approach. It involves acknowledging and transforming the impact of racism and other forms of oppression, and creating pathways to wholeness and connection with others.
The Healing Justice framework and social movement was founded by the Kindred Southern Healing Justice Collective, with significant contributions from Cara Page, a Black Indigenous queer femme organizer. It aims to address the individual and collective trauma stemming from systemic violence and oppression by revitalizing accessible and inclusive ancestral healing practices. These practices are intentionally situated outside of capitalist structures and the wellness industrial complex, emphasizing that healing belongs to everyone. Healing Justice is characterized by holistic, community-led approaches developed collaboratively with survivors and community members.
Book: Healing Justice Lineages: Dreaming at the crossroads of liberation, collective care, and safety.
"In this anthology, Black Queer Feminist editors Cara Page and Erica Woodland guide readers through the history, legacies, and liberatory practices of healing justice—a political strategy of collective care and safety that intervenes on generational trauma from systemic violence and oppression. They call forth the ancestral medicines and healing practices that have sustained communities who have survived genocide and oppression, while radically imagining what comes next.
Anti-capitalist, Black feminist, and abolitionist, is a profound and urgent call to embrace community and survivor-led care strategies as models that push beyond commodified self-care, the policing of the medical industrial complex, and the surveillance of the public health system. Centering disability, reproductive, environmental, and transformative justice and harm reduction, this collection elevates and archives an ongoing tradition of liberation and survival—one that has been largely left out of our history books, but continues to this day.
In the first section, “Past: Reckoning with Roots and Lineage,” Page and Woodland remember and reclaim generations-long healing justice and community care work, asking critical questions like:
The next sections, “Origins of Healing Justice” and “Alchemy: Theory + Praxis,” explore regional stories of healing justice in response to the current political and cultural landscape. The last section, “Political + Spiritual Imperatives for the Future,” imagines a future rooted in lessons of the past; addresses the ways healing justice is being co-opted and commodified; and uplifts emergent work that’s building infrastructure for care, safety, healing, and political liberation." (Goodreads)
Websites:
Kindred Southern Healing Justice Collective: https://kindredsouthernhjcollective.org/what-is-healing-justice/
Values of Healing Justice: https://kindredsouthernhjcollective.org/values/
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