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A way to deepenour understanding of the relationship between social justice and the work of healinghealing as individuals, communities, and societies.
The newest title in the Emergent Strategy Series, Liberated to the Bone, addresses the intersections between healing our physical bodies and healing our social relations which are shaped by violence. Bodyworker and cultural worker Susan Raffo addresses intergenerational trauma, social justice, organizing, and how all of these things are relevant to our bodies. The book illuminates three different approaches to healing: ending violence, the significance of being rooted in the present, and creating the conditions to address unfinished histories and generational trauma. By showing how these approaches are intricately connectedphysically and emotionallyRaffo interrupts the traumatic binaries of the political and spiritual, the physical and intellectual, and healing and organizing.
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Liberated
TO THE
BONE
histories. bodies. futures.
Susan Raffo
Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown
Pleasure Activism by adrienne maree brown
Undrowned by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
We Will Not Cancel Us by adrienne maree brown
Holding Change by adrienne maree brown
Begin the World Over by Kung Li Sun
Fables and Spells by adrienne maree brown
This book speaks to the relationships we need for our collective liberation. This is a vibrant, complex, and a veritable feast for our hunger, our hearts, our collective spirits, and breath. Raffo speaks to our kin and asks us to shape our relationships to earth, to bodies, to histories, and transformation. Her words are a path toward shedding our fears and building new cosmologies for connection and healing. This book is medicine as necessary as blood, as bone, as air, as seeds, as water is to our collective memories and futures.
Cara Page, Cultural Worker/Organizer, cofounding member of the Kindred Southern Healing Justice Collective
There is much talk in Indian Country about decolonizing our minds. Raffo has set readers on a path to decolonizing our bodies, our entirety. Unlearning, learning, and being ourselves into healing from seven generations of dis-ease. And doing so willingly and ably in communitydoing this together, collectively, for the better of the whole. Miigwech, Susan.
Marcie Rendon, author of Cash Blackbear Mysteries
Reading Susan Raffo is like coming home to what we know is true and didnt quite know how to say. Her essays move us inward and forward. She grounds us in deep and ancient love and calls us to claim our own version, a fierce invitation to ourselves and each other. She teaches a poetry of belonging, she urges us to sacred truth, she offers such grace, all grounded in the imperative to heal into our mutual liberation. This book is a balm of truth telling, the kind we all long for and rarely find in our current culture of fear and denial. The truth will set us free and Susan Raffos book offers us a pathway into a kind of knowing that we desperately need and is long overdue. I am full of gratitude for Susan and her wisdom.
Tema Okun, author of The Emperor Has No Clothes
Susan shows us how intergenerational memories are alive in our cells. How the longings for love and justice are calling to us from our bodies. She weaves together embodied healing and organizing for liberation, revealing it as one cloth. This book will usher you into radical practices for freedom.
Staci K. Haines, author of The Politics of Trauma
This book literally feels like lifeblood to me as a survivor, an activist, a writer, and a white person unlearning whiteness. We need Susan Raffos stories, wisdom, and questions as we inch toward liberation. With brilliance, compassion, and ferocity, Liberated to the Bone helps connect us to our bodyminds, to each other, and to liberatory strategies.
Eli Clare, author of Brilliant Imperfection
When it comes to healers, sometimes I think we dont truly meet them until we are in their hands, on their tables, in their care. In 2010, I was a national coordinator for an event called the US Social Forum in Detroit, and by day three my system was completely overwhelmed and blown out. I walked down to the Healing Justice Practice Space to see if anyone could help, and all I remember is stepping into a basement conference center room on the edge of tears. It felt like a circle of people surrounded and held me as my body began to shake uncontrollably but when I opened my eyes there was just the blessed, knowing face of Susan Raffo. She normalized the somatic release Id had, affirmed the wisdom of my body, gave me water and gentleness, and sent me on my way. I walked down a hallway and entered a massive room where I got to sing A Change Is Gonna Come to Grace Lee Boggs in celebration of her birthday.
What I have understood from the inside out since that day was that Susan Raffo knows a ton about the body, and about organizing, and about Healing Justice, and about what movement workers need in order to continue being a part of complex efforts to generate liberation.
A few years later, I started to see these blog posts that Susan was sharing on social media. Without hyperbole, I must say I was astounded by her writingboth the poetic style, the gentle healer-teacher energy I remembered from being in her hands, and the brilliant juxtapositions she was making between the body and movement work and this moment in time. I found myself eagerly awaiting each post. I finally couldnt take it anymore, I asked if shed ever let us publish her as part of the Emergent Strategy series. She said yes!
In the pages that follow, Susan Raffo sets us firmly in the conversation about Healing Justice as one of the people who has helped develop the framework. She guides us through the work of stopping violence from the body up, helps us land in the current moment of not just our own bodies but the relationships and communities we must form around ourselves as we recover, and finally lays out how we create the conditions that allow the deepest healing. This book is equal parts poetic and practical. As Susan reminds us, there is no such thing as individual traumashe helps us understand how to heal in community across generations and through lineage.
Now, I invite you into the experience of feeling mended, shaped, released, and inspired by this collection. And once it heals you, pass it on to a friend. Together we can heal.
adrienne maree brown
A friend of mine once shared with me this story: when we are born, we begin to gather experiences like pebbles and stones. We slip each of these experiences into our pockets, filling them with what we have learned and done. This shapes us, this pull and tug of stones and pebbles. It is the accumulation of the weight of our lives. At one point, we reach an age where we have the urge to take these stones out of our pockets and begin sharing them with the people around us. Here, we say, look at what I learned! Look at how I have put these three pebbles together and seen something remarkable. We can be as hungry to share these stones as we were to gather them. If we are lucky and we live our entire lifespan, then this means we live until our pockets are empty. We no longer have stones to share. Thats when it is time to prepare to move on.
I dont know when the moment is that we shift from filling our pockets to emptying them. I dont believe it is linear, some line in the middle that says here you fill and then on this side, you empty. The middle space feels much blurrier than that, with a mix of filling and emptying happening in various ways. I am further on the side of emptying than I was ten or even five years ago. If I am lucky, along with the privileges that support me, I still have a lot more years. But being toward the end of middle age, I feel an increase in the desire to tumble more and more of these stones out of my pockets.
The feeling is like this: here, this is what I have learned. This is what it felt like and smelled like. Is this useful to you? Is this a stone you want to add to your own pile?
This book exists because adrienne maree brown, who I already know and trust from shared work and community, read my blog posts and invited me to gather them together and rework them. I am grateful for that. Deeply. I trust her and what she listens for. It took me a little less than two years to feel ready to move with this invitation, two years of waiting and doing my own listening. And now, here we are.
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