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:
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"This anthology is asking us to grow a new collective capacity and muscle memory stemming from justice, liberation, dignity, and healing—connective tissue that supports us being in more aligned movements together."
— FARZANA KHAN, cofounder and codirector of Healing Justice London
What a treasure during these turbulent times!
— PEDRO A. NOGUERA, PHD, dean at the Rossier School of Education, USCThis anthology is a must-read for nonprofits, universities, communities, and organizations committed to changemaking.
— BETH BERILA, PHD, faculty director of gender and women’s studies, St. Cloud State UniversityThis interdisciplinary text arrives at a time when we need many robust examples of how we practice and think about liberation.
— DR. ANGEL ACOSTA, chair of Acosta InstituteBe the first to write a review about this audiobook!