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Our movements themselves have to be healing, or there’s no point to them. —Cara Page, Kindred Southern Healing Justice Collective
PRO TIPS/POP QUIZ:
Those words: “Sick.” “Disabled.” “Healer.” Do you think of them in the same sentence?
Do you think a sick, mad, Deaf, neurodivergent, and/or disabled person can heal?
What do you think “healing” is? Do you think that it means becoming as close to able-bodied as possible?
Do you think it is always sad or terrible to be sick or disabled? Do you think everybody wants to be able-bodied and neurotypical, and would choose it if they could?
Does healing justice mean to you that someday no one will be disabled or sick because there will be no toxic waste and health care for all?
— Care Work by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (36%)