To Birth a New World: A Conversation about “Healing Justice Lineages” with Cara Page and Erica Woodland

To Birth a New World: A Conversation about Healing Justice Lineages with Cara Page and Erica Woodland 

Tuesday, March 12
2:30-4 p.m.
On Zoom

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Hosted by the UIC Disability Cultural Center and the UIC Provost Initiative on the Racialized Body.

Join us for a Zoom conversation with Cara Page and Erica Woodland about “Healing Justice Lineages: Dreaming at the Crossroads of Liberation, Collective Care, and Safety” (2023). This conversation will lift up the “why this? why now?” of the book’s lineage work that grounds healing justice in its anti-capitalist, anti-racist, anti-ableist center, along with lessons the anthology has collected and generated. Our conversation will include an ample Q&A portion.  

Access information: We’ll have CART (live captions) and ASL in the Zoom with us. Please contact dcc@uic.edu or 312-355-7050 with any other access requests or questions. 

Cara Page is a Black queer feminist cultural/memory worker, curator and organizer. For  more than 30 years, she has organized with Black, Indigenous and people of color, queer/trans/lesbian/gay/bi/intersex/gender nonconforming liberation movements in the U.S. and Global South at the intersections of racial, gender and economic justice, disability justice, reproductive justice, healing justice and transformative justice. She is cultural organizing director of Changing Frequencies, an abolitionist organizing project that designs cultural memory work to disrupt harms and violence from the Medical Industrial Complex. She is also co-founder of the Healing Histories Project and core leadership team member and founding Director of the Kindred Southern Healing Justice Collective.

Erica Woodland is a Black queer trans masculine facilitator, consultant, psychotherapist and healing justice practitioner. For more than 20 years, he has organized at the nexus of political liberation and collective care inside movements for racial, gender, economic, trans and queer justice. Woodland is a licensed clinical social worker and the founding director of the National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network, a healing justice organization that works to organize QTBIPOC mental health practitioners around a bold vision of care rooted in collective healing and liberation.