Practicing Liberation: Transformative Strategies for Collective Healing & Systems Change: Reflections on Burnout, Trauma & Building Communities of Car -- Tessa Hicks Peterson, Paperback
How do we do effective, sustainable social change...without burning out, internalizing systemic toxicity, or replicating urgency culture? A trauma-informed anthology with contributions from 13 activists and community organizers--for readers of adrienne maree brown, Staci K. Haines, and Ejeris Dixon When your work is inextricable from your identity, your community, and your own liberation, you need a unique praxis of care to sustain it--and for mission-driven activists, organizers, and changemakers working under oppressive systems, making space to center vital needs like rest, self-care, and healthy boundaries isn't as simple as clocking out. Practicing Liberation reorients collective justice work toward a model that transforms the effects of injustice, harm, and oppressive systems into resilience, joy, and community care. Through frameworks like trauma-informed methodology, transformative movement organizing, engaged Buddhism, and healing justice, editors Hala Khouri and Tessa Hicks Peterson show readers how to:
- Embody healing, wellness, and beloved community
- Guard against replicating systems of harm
- Disrupt racist, classist, anti-queer, and anti-trans behavior and systems
- Celebrate creativity and radical imagination in movement work
- Center healing from intergenerational trauma, white supremacy culture, and extractive capitalism
- Honor that self-care is a necessity--not a luxury--that strengthens our collectives
Author: Tessa Hicks Peterson
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Published: 7/30/2024
Pages: 264
Binding Type: Paperback
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ISBN: 9798889840664