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:
• 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 necessity, not a luxury, that strengthens our collectives.
