Healing Justice
Healing Justice is a core area of work that guides our work at Yo ! Cali . We define Healing Justice as a movement and framework that aims to address widespread generational trauma from systemic violence and oppression by reviving ancestral healing practices and building new and inclusive ones. We honor the lineage of this framework and definition by Cara Page, the Kindred Healing Collective, disability justice practitioners and all creators/builders/birthers of this framework .
Healing Justice is necessary for our Collective Liberation.
Healing is a practice of love, joy, celebration, reflection, release, growth & transformation. It is something we need to be in constant practice of. There are many healing practices we can do individually & in community - practices that we create, or that honor, reclaim and are a remembrance of our lineage. It is a journey of remembering and embodying our wholeness.
HEALING JUSTICE PRINCIPLES
Principle 1: Healing Justice means we are practicing wholeness
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We see being whole as being free — to show up fully as ourselves and acknowledge, accept, and re-integrate all parts of ourselves.
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Being in the practice of wholeness means coming back to ourselves fully (physically, emotionally, spiritually, and mentally)
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Wholeness calls us to be good relatives to each other — to be in good relationship with self, each other, and the land.
Principle 2: Healing Justice means affirming that we are the experts of our bodies, experience, and needs.
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We have a deep knowledge of our wants, needs, desires, and journey to receive them.
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We have the ability to express our needs, and those needs are respected and honored.
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We are embodied people. We have a deep belief that our body is our greatest teacher.
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We collectively create sacred containers of care, love, and safety for ourselves and each other.
Principle 3: Healing Justice means that we honor our cultural traditions, intergenerational wisdom, lineages and hold new traditions.
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We lead with honoring the intergenerational wisdom, cultural practices, and holistic support of our communities
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We celebrate the richness of hxstory, intergenerational wisdom, cultural practices, and holistic support of our communities passed down from generation to generation
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We celebrate knowledge and practices passed down from generation to generation
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We honor the strong lineage we come from.
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We thank our ancestors and work with the remembrance of our gifts and power.
Principle 4: Healing Justice means we acknowledge the roots of trauma, violence, oppression experienced across generations, and work to repair the wounds it left behind.
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Individual and collective care are crucial to our liberation : Taking care of ourselves to be able to care for others
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We center those most impacted; our Black, Indigenous, Native, Disabled, QTPOC relatives
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Recognizing the ways historical trauma and structural violence have caused harm, grief, crisis, trauma and further cycles of violence for oppressed peoples. (National Queer & Trans Therapists of Color Network)
Principle 5: Healing Justice means opening up a pathway to our collective liberation, envisioning a future of joy, love and infinite possibilities.
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Rooted in expansiveness, vibrancy, and honors the practice of fullness
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A world where we can dream up, imagine, and experience freedom
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Honors our inherent ability to heal and the specific legacy of resistance and resilience of queer and trans people of color.
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It requires that we constantly re-imagine what is possible regarding our healing, safety, sustainability, and fortification.
RESOURCES
Below are some resources should they serve you. Thank you to everyone for sharing.
Healing Resources for the times: From Resilient Strategies, Training for Change, Generative Somatics & Movement 4 Black Lives
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Prentis Hemphill, gs teacher, recently offered Street Somatics: Tips for Regulating Nervous Systems in Uprisings.
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Earlier this year, Xochitl Bervera, gs teacher, led a somatic shakedown practice on a gs webinar (Somatics, Healing, and Social Justice in the time of coronavirus) - at 57:00 - 1:02:00.
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In 2017, Alta Starr, gs teacher, led a somatic centering on a gs webinar (Somatics In the Time of Trump) - at 38:41-50:13.
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Staci K. Haines, gs co-founder and teacher, and Alta Starr, gs teacher, led a somatic blending practice on a gs webinar (Somatics In the Time of Trump) - at 21:52-28:52 . The blending practice invites us to feel whatever emotions and reactions are present for us and honor and acknowledge them.
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Healing Resources for BIPOC Organizers & Allies Taking Action for Black Lives
FOR THE STREETS
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via Movement for Black Lives and BlackOUT Collective
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via Training for Change
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via Training for Change
ANALYSIS & STRATEGY
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Reformist reforms vs. abolitionist steps in policing via Critical Resistance
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Learn how police union contracts make it difficult to hold officers accountable. via the Police Union Contract Project
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How Protests are Changing National Politics via The Call, part of Democratic Socialists of America. The Call is publishing first-hand reports from protests across the U.S. here.
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Verso and Haymarket Books are offering free ebooks, The End of Policing and Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect?
HEALING & RESILIENCE
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Spiritual Herbalism for our Rage, Resistance, Righteousness, and Resilience (for People of Color) via by @oceansandrivers
GRAPHICS FOR DOWNLOAD
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https://justseeds.org/graphics/ - have three care packages of images which are free for download as well as coloring images
PLANT MEDICINE
SPIRITUALITY
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White Baths: fighting Anxiety, Depression and PTSD with African Traditional Medicine
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M9VEMENT FOR BLACK LIVES- HEALING, HEALTH, AND RESILIENCE DURING COVID-19
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Liberate - meditation by People Of Color
MENTAL HEALTH
IG pages to follow:
PODCASTS:
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Mi Jente - LA cura podcast - has grounding meditations and short guided meditations centered around latinx communities
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A Little Juju podcast - A Little Juju Podcast celebrates the rapidly growing return of black folk reclaiming their indigenous spiritual practices, while creating a space for us to laugh, question, and re-commit ourselves to liberation through the ancestral tools given to us. Because unlike f-bois, the ancestors always call us back.
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Finding our way podcast by Prentis Hemphill
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Emergent Strategy Podcast - Adrienne, Hope , Sage
Writings, Podcasts, and Videos
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No More Pipeline Blues (On This Land Where We Belong) (Music Video) - Featuring Waubanewquay, Winona LaDuke, Day Sisters, Mumu Fresh, Pura Fe, Soni Moreno, Jennifer Kreisberg, Indigo Girls, Bonnie Raitt, and Joy Harjo
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An Afro-Indigenous Approach to Agriculture and Food Security by Leah Penniman
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Here's How Deb Haaland Wants to Address the Crisis of Violence Against Indigenous Women by Piper McDaniel
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Trans Agenda for Liberation in Spanish and English
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MAJOR! - a documentary that explores the life and campaigns of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a formerly incarcerated Black transgender elder and activist who has been fighting for the rights of trans women of color for over 40 years
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Two Spirits, One Heart: a Mother, Her Transgender Son, and Their Journey to Love and Acceptance by Marsha Aizumi and Aiden Aizumi
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Mariame Kaba wants us to imagine a future without prisons by Char Adams and Abolition is a Collective Vision: An Interview with Mariame Kaba by Elias Rodriues
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A Guide to Non-Police Mental Health Crisis Responses - written by Mimi E. Kim, Megyung Chung, Shira Hassan, and Andrea J. Ritchie with contributions by many more - Visit Interrupting Criminalization's website which published this piece. Interrupting Criminalization: Research in Action is an initiative at the BCRW Social Justice Institute led by researchers Woods Ervin, Mariame Kaba, and Andrea J. Ritchie. The project aims to interrupt and end the growing criminalization and incarceration of women and LGBTQ people of color for criminalized acts related to public order, poverty, child welfare, drug use, survival and self-defense, including criminalization and incarceration of survivors of violence.
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Serena Williams, Steph Curry Among Athletes Who Lend Support After Naomi Osaka Withdraws from French Open by Jay Connor
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Race, Gender, and Militarism: Pacific Islander Experiences (Video) with Tavae Samuelu, Kerri Ann Borja, Jamaica Osorio, and Terisa Siagatonu
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We speak about Asian Americans as a single block. Here's how incredibly complex they are by Nicole Chavez and Priya Krishnakumar
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Resharing this article relevant to these times: API Mental Health: Let's Stop Talking Taboos and Start Talking Racism by Jen Soriano
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Japanese American Activists Support Black Reparations to Heal Wounds Past and Present and this video shared by Yuri Miyagawa of ancestor Congressmember Ron Dellums sharing personal testimony to make the case for reparations for Japanese Americans in the 1980s
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The Women Who Preserved the Story of the Tulsa Massacre by Victor Luckerson, telling the story of Mary E. Jones Parrish and Eddie Fay Gates
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Resources at Teach Palestine including the short documentary film My Neighbourhood telling a story of organizing in Sheikh Jarrah
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How to Be an Antiracist Supervisor: Start with Changing What You Call Yourself by Kim-Monique Johnson
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Parenting for Liberation Podcast with Trina Greene Brown, author of Parenting for Liberation: a Guide for Raising Black Children
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Real Native Roots: Untold Stories Podcast with Vickie K. Oldman
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Boundaried in Love with Prentis Hemphill on The Emergent Strategy Podcast
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Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women's Digital Resistance by Moya Bailey
WOMB HEALTH