Q: What openings has the national debate on health care created for this work? What opportunities have closed?Īt first, I thought that the national debate on health care would facilitate some awesome discussions on preventative health care and bring preventative and holistic health care into the national picture because it has been shown to be cost-effective to practice good preventative and holistic medicine. So the work is necessarily creating intersections between what tend to be separate issues. So, we are asking ourselves after and before actions, for example, what was the impact on our bodies, minds, and emotions? What came up for us? What tools do we need or do we have to address what came up and the impact? And the actions themselves address trauma and violence as they are addressing systemic oppression. I think that working within a healing justice framework is a way to institutionalize sustainability in our work. People have been asking more and more questions about “sustainability” in the work. It recognizes that we HAVE bodies, minds, emotions, hearts, and it makes the connection that we cannot do this work of transforming society and our communities without bringing collective healing into our work. And, it asks us to bring collective practices for healing and transformation INTO our work. The way I understand it, healing justice acknowledges and addresses the layers and layers of trauma and violence that we have been living with and fighting for generations. But, health justice is not specifically targeted toward healing generational trauma and violence, nor is it specifically about developing community practices and visioning. Health justice is very much about access to health care, modalities that accessible, harm reduction, and having a race, class, gender, ability, etc.
For me, the two are inseparable but for others they are very different. Also, let me also make healing justice more distinct from health justice.
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