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Tune in to episode 26 of the Disability Inclusion: Required podcast.

Disability Inclusion: Required – Episode 26 – Disability and Healing Justice

This conversation explores the principles of healing justice and its connections to disability justice, highlighting the importance of collective care and the need to challenge individualistic and curative models of care that perpetuate harm and oppression. The speakers discuss how care practices observed by communities of color have been criminalized, and they provide examples of how funders can intervene to support collective trauma transformation. They also address the challenges of adopting an anti-capitalist practice within the philanthropic sector and the deep connections between anti-blackness, the medical industrial complex, and the prison industrial complex. The speakers dream of a future where healing can find interdependence, focus on freedom, transform oppression, and free our hearts and minds.

Our podcast theme music is by Andre Louis and Precious Perez. Thank you to Recording Artists And Music Professionals With Disabilities (RAMPD) for connecting these talented disabled musicians with the Disability & Philanthropy Forum.

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Featured Guests

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Cara Page

Cara Page is a Black Queer Feminist cultural memory worker, and organizer. She is co-editor of, Healing Justice Lineages: Dreaming at the Crossroads of Liberation, Collective Care & Safety, and co-architect of the healing justice political framework as a core member & co-founder of Kindred Collective. She is currently the founding Cultural Organizer, Writer & Producer of Changing Frequencies; and co-founder of the Healing Histories Project. Her work seeks to remember and disrupt the abuses & eugenic violence of the Medical Industrial Complex. She dreams, builds and fights for collective care & safety for our liberatory & abolitionist futures.

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Erica Woodland, LCSW

Erica Woodland, LCSW is a Black queer, trans masculine facilitator, psychotherapist and healing justice practitioner who has worked at the intersections of movements for racial, gender, economic, trans and queer justice and liberation for more than 20 years. He is the Founding Director of the National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network), a healing justice organization that organizes health and healing practitioners to disrupt the violence of the medical industrial complex while building liberatory models of care rooted in abolition. Erica is co-editor of Healing Justice Lineages: Dreaming at the Crossroads of Liberation, Collective Care and Safety, with Cara Page (North Atlantic Books, 2023).