In an earlier blog post, Kanwarpal Dhaliwal, Community Health Director at RYSE, reframed an essential question governing the ACEs and trauma informed community, and as though the universe were listening, this article arrived in today's Huffington Post, as part of the BlackVoices series.
The author is Prentis Hemphill, Director of Healing Justice at the Black Lives Matter Network. So much food for thought and action in both of these posts, which seem to call and respond to one another.
Prentis, on Healing Justice:
"We heal so that we can act and organize.
Cara Page and Kindred Southern Healing Justice Collective cleared a path and told us that “healing justice...identifies how we can holistically respond to and intervene on generational trauma and violence, and to bring collective practices that can impact and transform the consequences of oppression on our bodies, hearts and minds.”
A broad and intersectional vision of liberation work requires that we continue to recall this vision of healing and healing justice into the center of our organizing."
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