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How do we do effective, sustainable social changewithout burning out, internalizing systemic toxicity, or replicating urgency culture?
A trauma-informed anthology with contributions from 13 activists and community organizersfor 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 itand for mission-driven activists, organizers, and changemakers working under oppressive systems, making space to center vital needs like rest, self-care, and healthy boundaries isnt 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 necessitynot a luxurythat strengthens our collectives
Featuring essays from editors Hala Khouri and Tessa Hicks Peterson and contributors like Kazu Haga, Taj James, Nkem Ndefo, Jacoby Ballard, Sará King, Kerri Kelly, and more, Practicing Liberation can be used on its own or alongside The Practicing Liberation Workbook to help readers orient toward embodied leadership, interconnected collectives, and a bold vision for transformationthe vital tools we need for collective wellbeing, healing, and long-term social change.
Author: Tessa Hicks Peterson
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Published: 07/30/2024
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9798889840664
Language: English
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