“Emergency Care of Wounds That Cannot Be Seen”: Healing Justice & Ntozake Shange (Event)

Free and open to the public!

In the spirit of writer Ntozake Shange (BC ‘71), whose works explored indigenous, black, and folk ways of healing from both immediate emotional wounds and the transgenerational psychic pain wrought by legacies of patriarchal white supremacy, we invite you to a night of conversation, reflection, and embodied practice. According to cultural/memory worker, curator, and organizer Cara Page, who coined the term, “healing justice” is a framework that  “identifies how we can holistically respond to and intervene on generational trauma and violence and bring[s] collective practices that can impact and transform the consequences of oppression on our bodies, hearts and minds.” Working with Cara Page, choreographer-writer Ebony Noelle Golden, and Educator-herbalist Tiffany Lenoi, this space introduces attendees to healing justice practices that can promote individual and communal healing and transform the ways we work together. This is the first event of the Healing, Creativity, Envisioning Freedom Project  #ShangeMagic

October 1st, 6pm – 8pm  *  James Room, Barnard Hall, 4th floor

PARTICIPANTS (speaker bios available here)

Cara Page, cultural/memory worker, curator, and organizer who coined the term “healing justice”

Ebony Noelle Golden (founder of Betty’s Daughter Arts Collaborative)

Tiffany Lenoi (of Harriet’s Apothecary)

Moderator Vani Natarajan, Research and Instruction Librarian in the Humanities and Global Studies

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