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Healing Justice
Working to create a world where healing is not a privilege but a right. It ensures that individuals, relationships, organizations and communities have the tools, resources, and support to heal from systemic oppression while continuing the work for liberation.
By integrating healing into social justice movements, we create more sustainable, just, and caring futures for all.
Healing justice values community-based and culturally-rooted healing
Healing justice affirms that rest, joy, and care are acts of resistance that sustain movements.
Healing is Political
Healing Justice
What is Healing Justice?
Healing justice is the practice of integrating healing, resilience, and collective care into movements for social and racial justice. At its core, healing justice recognizes that healing and collective care are essential to resistance, liberation, and sustainable movements. It centers the emotional, spiritual, and physical well-being of communities as a liberatory act. It is a response to burnout, trauma, and the invisibilized emotional toll of activism especially for Black, Indigenous, disabled, queer, transgender/GNC, and immigrant organizers. Coined in the early 2000s at the Kindred Southern Healing Justice Collective,
Why It Matters?
Why It Matters Traditional social justice work often mirrors capitalist, extractive, ableist systems and pushing people past their limits. Healing justice insists that liberation isn't just about systems change, it's also about transforming how we relate to our own bodies, each other, and the land.
Core Principles?
Core Principles Collective Care-Healing is not an individual responsibility. I's communal. Trauma-Informed-Acknowledging how trauma shows up in our work and creating safety and dignity for all. Body + Spirit Sovereignty-Honoring the body, emotions, and spirit as legitimate sources of knowledge and power. Liberation Over Coping-It’s not just about surviving systems of harm. It's also about creating new, life-affirming ones.
Key Thinkers and Movers
Kindred Southern Healing Justice Collective
Cara Page- carapage.co
Campaign for Southern Equity- southernequality.org
Center for Media Justice- mediajustice.org/
The Embodiment Institute- www.theembodimentinstitute.org/
The Audre Lorde Project alp.org
The Nap Ministry thenapministry.wordpress.com/
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