Can Healing Be Our North Star? Reimagining Health, Well-Being, and Collective Liberation

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From the history of the Underground Railroad and the Black Power movement to today’s ongoing resistance struggles against anti-Black racism and police brutality, activists and healers in every movement for Black and brown liberation have included strategies around care and protection.

In the early 2000s in southeastern United States, the Kindred Healing Justice Collective—a network of Black, Indigenous, LGBTQI, and women of color organizers, political healers, and health practitioners—were witnessing a national rise in anti-Black racism, anti-immigration policies, Islamophobia, criminalization of poverty, and homophobic violence. At the same time, they were experiencing an increase in suicides and immense burnout among organizers in their communities. In response, the Collective began using the term “healing justice” as a framework to elevate the role of healing for our collective survival, well-being, protection, liberation, and to identify how to holistically respond to and intervene in generational trauma, violence, and oppression.

This conversation on the role of healing in political liberation will examine ways in which racism and inequality are embedded in, and abetted by, Western-based health models and frameworks. Soros Equality Fellow Cara Page, a founding member of the Kindred Healing Justice Collective, will be in conversation with historian, curator, and writer Jack Tchen and artist Anicka Yi to explore how disease has been used as a justification for colonialism, oppression, exploitation, and policing of Black, brown, Indigenous, Asian, and other communities under attack.

Exploring this theme from both historical and contemporary perspectives—looking at the medical-industrial complex, eugenics, colonial history, and the COVID-19 pandemic from a cross-racial standpoint—we will then examine how a healing justice framework could help us radically reimagine physical, emotional, societal, and environmental well-being across a variety of movements.

This event will provide live American Sign Language interpretation.
Speakers:  Cara Page, Alvin Starks, Jack Tchen, Anicka Yi

 











When: Thu., Nov. 19, 2020 at 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Where: Open Society Foundations–New York
224 W. 57th St.
212-548-0600
Price: Free
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RSVP: https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/events/can-healing-be-our-north-star-reimagining-health-well-being-and-collective-liberation

From the history of the Underground Railroad and the Black Power movement to today’s ongoing resistance struggles against anti-Black racism and police brutality, activists and healers in every movement for Black and brown liberation have included strategies around care and protection.

In the early 2000s in southeastern United States, the Kindred Healing Justice Collective—a network of Black, Indigenous, LGBTQI, and women of color organizers, political healers, and health practitioners—were witnessing a national rise in anti-Black racism, anti-immigration policies, Islamophobia, criminalization of poverty, and homophobic violence. At the same time, they were experiencing an increase in suicides and immense burnout among organizers in their communities. In response, the Collective began using the term “healing justice” as a framework to elevate the role of healing for our collective survival, well-being, protection, liberation, and to identify how to holistically respond to and intervene in generational trauma, violence, and oppression.

This conversation on the role of healing in political liberation will examine ways in which racism and inequality are embedded in, and abetted by, Western-based health models and frameworks. Soros Equality Fellow Cara Page, a founding member of the Kindred Healing Justice Collective, will be in conversation with historian, curator, and writer Jack Tchen and artist Anicka Yi to explore how disease has been used as a justification for colonialism, oppression, exploitation, and policing of Black, brown, Indigenous, Asian, and other communities under attack.

Exploring this theme from both historical and contemporary perspectives—looking at the medical-industrial complex, eugenics, colonial history, and the COVID-19 pandemic from a cross-racial standpoint—we will then examine how a healing justice framework could help us radically reimagine physical, emotional, societal, and environmental well-being across a variety of movements.

This event will provide live American Sign Language interpretation.
Speakers:  Cara Page, Alvin Starks, Jack Tchen, Anicka Yi

 

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