Healing Justice Podcast

In this third episode of Healing Justice Podcast, Dr. Robyn Henderson-Espinoza joins host Kate Werning for a conversation about activist theology in the streets, honoring Trans Day of Remembrance (November 20), how to be human with one another, the politics of radical difference, and loving Trans folks well. As a brand new podcast, we need you to subscribe, give a 5-star rating, and share a positive review to help us continue. Join us in the sustainability and viability of this project and subscribe, rate, & review now!   Check out the incredible guests and topics we'll be featuring coming up and sign up for the email list to hear when new episodes drop at www.healingjustice.org   MEET OUR GUEST: Dr. Robyn Henderson-Espinoza, PhD Knowing intimately that the borderlands are a place of learning and growth, Robyn draws on their identity and heritage as a Trans queer Latinx in everything that they do. From doubt to divine and everywhere in between, their call as an activist-theologian demands the vision to disrupt hegemony and colonialist structures of multi-layered oppressions.  As an anti-oppression, anti-racist, non-binary Trans*gressive Latinx, Robyn takes seriously their call as an activist theologian and ethicist to bridge together theories and practices that result in communities responding to pressing social concerns. Robyn sees this work as a life-orienting vocation, deeply committed to translating theory to practice, and embedded in re-imagining our moral horizon to one which privileges a politics of radical difference. They currently serve as Director of Public Theology Initiatives at Faith Matters Network in Nashville, TN. Find them on their website, on Twitter as @irobyn, and on their Facebook page. On November 19, Robyn will join the 9:30 and 11:45am worship services at Middle Collegiate Church in NYC as part of the celebration of Trans Awareness Week. They will preach a sermon called “And God Hovered Over the Face of the Deep: Transgressing Gender.” Join us there if you’re in NYC, and catch the livestream if you’re elsewhere. More info here.   REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE Gloria E. Anzaldúa was a queer Chicana poet, writer, and queer and feminist theorist. Her book, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1987) and her essay, “La Prieta,” are considered to be groundbreaking works in cultural, feminist, and queer theories. Robyn’s article in the Huffington Post, 3/28/2017: “We need to address femmephobia in the queer community” The Radical Copyeditor’s Guide for Writing About Transgender People by Alex Kapitan Details to join Robyn in person or via livestream for their sermon at Middle Collegiate Church Nov 19 Find Robyn on their website, on Twitter as @irobyn, and on their Facebook page   PRACTICE Download the next episode for a simple but profound journaling practice with Robyn. You’ll need a notebook or something to write on and your favorite writing implement. Get ready to be led through some reflection on your identity - inspired by Thomas Aquinas, Robyn puts their own spin on a classic question: “Who am I, and how do I know?”   As a brand new podcast, we need you to subscribe, give a 5-star rating, and share a positive review to help us continue. Join us in the sustainability and viability of this project and subscribe, rate, & review now!   JOIN THE COMMUNITY Check out the incredible guests and topics we'll be featuring coming up and sign up for the email list to hear when new episodes drop at www.healingjustice.org Follow us on Instagram @healingjustice & like our Facebook page We pay for all costs out-of-pocket and this podcast is 100% volunteer-run. Help us cover our costs by becoming a sponsor at patreon.com/healingjustice THANK YOU Mixed and produced by Zach Meyer at the COALROOM Intro and Closing music gifted by Danny O’Brien All visuals contributed by Josiah Werning

  Join us for a simple 5-min practice: listening to the reading of a poem. Just a short one this week to get us into the rhythm of conversing & practicing together! (full poem text below)   Check out episode 2 for the corresponding conversation with Teresa Pasquale Mateus and Shawna Wakefield titled "Conversations in Healing Justice."   As a brand new podcast, we need you to subscribe, give a 5-star rating, and share a positive review to help us continue. Join us in the sustainability and viability of this project and subscribe, rate, & review now!     BREATHE, a poem by Lynn Ungar Breathe, said the wind.   How can I breathe at a time like this, when the air is full of the smoke of burning tires, burning lives? Just breathe, the wind insisted. Easy for you to say, if the weight of injustice is not wrapped around your throat, cutting off all air. I need you to breathe. I need you to breathe. Don’t tell me to be calm when there are so many reasons to be angry, so much cause for despair! I didn’t say to be calm, said the wind, I said to breathe. We’re going to need a lot of air to make this hurricane together.   JOIN THE COMMUNITY Check out the incredible guests and topics we'll be featuring coming up and sign up for the email list to hear when new episodes drop at www.healingjustice.org Follow us on Instagram @healingjustice & like our Facebook page We pay for all costs out-of-pocket and this podcast is 100% volunteer-run. Help us cover our costs by becoming a sponsor at patreon.com/healingjustice   THANK YOU Mixed and produced by Zach Meyer at the COALROOM Intro and Closing music gifted by Danny O’Brien Thank you to Sullivan Oakley for voicing the poem reading.

In the second episode of Healing Justice Podcast, host Kate Werning is joined by collaborators Shawna Wakefield and Teresa Pasquale Mateus for a conversation about what healing justice means to us and our aspirations for this virtual practice space. We talk spirituality, trauma and resilience, some of the history of this work, gender justice, international work, Standing Rock, self care / collective care / community care, personal stories and struggles in our activism and organizing, sustainability and more. Check out the incredible guests and topics we'll be featuring coming up and sign up for the email list to hear when new episodes drop at www.healingjustice.org As a brand new podcast, we need you to subscribe, give a 5-star rating, and share a positive review to help us continue. Join us in the sustainability and viability of this project and subscribe, rate, & review now! MEET OUR GUESTS Shawna Wakefield is a gender justice advocate, mother of two girls, practitioner of living life wholly and helping other changemakers to do the same. She is bi-racial (African American/white Canadian), grew up in NY and VT, and has lived and worked in Cambodia and Afghanistan. She organized with immigrant and refugee women of color in the 90s, worked with the UN, and was Oxfam International’s Senior Gender Justice Lead for 7 years. She is currently an organizational development and leadership consultant with Gender at Work, and co-facilitates Brown Sugar Yoga for Folks of Color and workshops on collective wellbeing and resilience, including Resilience for Changemakers. Teresa Pasquale Mateus is a trauma therapist, trauma-conscious yoga and embodied care provider, and executive director/co-founder of The Mystic Soul Project - a people of color centered approach to contemplation, activism, and healing. She is author of Mending Broken: A Personal Journey Through the Stages of Trauma & Recovery and Sacred Wounds: A Path to Healing from Spiritual Trauma. Teresa is a collaborator in leading Resilience for Changemakers workshops and is co-developing resources to correlate cycles of personal and trauma and resilience with the ups and downs of the phases of social change. More about Teresa here: www.teresapasqualemateus.com   REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE “Healing justice is the how of our movements – it’s the texture, the experience and the vision that guides us. It’s our effort towards transforming ourselves, our ways of building relationship and our institutions to support and sustain Black aliveness that has carried us forward.” - Prentis Hemphill, Director of Healing Justice for Black Lives Matter Network, from this article in the Huffington Post More on the 2010 US Social Forum healing justice work in this article by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha Cara Page & the Kindred Southern Healing Justice Collective Icarus Project Black Lives Matter Healing Justice Toolkit UndocuBlack Mental Wellness Initiative UndocuHealth Project from United We Dream UndocuHealing Project from José Arreola-Torres Liberation School Movement Strategy Center reporting on the role of love and power in organizing Gender at Work   PRACTICE  Download the next episode for a brief practice - the reading of a poem. It’s simple and quick -- just getting us into the rhythm of both conversing and practicing together!    JOIN THE COMMUNITY Follow us on Instagram @healingjustice & like our Facebook page We pay for all costs out-of-pocket and this podcast is 100% volunteer-run. Help us cover our costs by becoming a sponsor at patreon.com/healingjustice   THANK YOU Mixed and produced by Zach Meyer at the COALROOM Intro and Closing music gifted by Danny O’Brien

On this first episode of Healing Justice Podcast, creator and host Kate Werning talks us through the vision, the story behind the podcast, why this why now, and invites you to join in the journey. Whether you are grappling with questions about social justice, community organizing, social movements, self care / collective care / community care, trauma and resilience, wellness and healing, activism, sustianability or more... we hope you will gather around the campfire with us and share your stories, perspectives, victories and challenges. Check out the incredible guests and topics we'll be featuring and sign up for the email list to hear when new episodes drop at www.healingjustice.org Let us know there about the questions, topics, and people you want to hear from next! As a brand new podcast, we need you to subscribe, give a 5-star rating, and share a positive review to help us continue. Join us in the sustainbility and viability of this project and subscribe, rate, & review now!   REFERRED TO IN THIS EPISODE Origins of the term 'healing justice': Cara Page and Kindred Healing Justice Collective, the 2010 US Social Forum in Detroit, Healing Justice work in the Black Lives Matter Network, and Quaker criminal justice reform/prison abolition campaigns. you do not have to be a firefor every mountain blocking you. you could be a waterand soft river your way to freedom too. -- options by nayyirah waheed   JOIN THE COMMUNITY  Follow us on Instagram @healingjustice & like our Facebook page We pay for all costs out-of-pocket and this podcast is 100% volunteer-run. Help us cover our costs by becoming a sponsor at patreon.com/healingjustice   THANK YOU Mixed and produced by Zach Meyer at the COALROOM Intro and Closing music gifted by Danny O’Brien

This is HEALING JUSTICE PODCAST: bridging conversations at the intersections of collective healing & social change. Each week we share a conversation with a powerful leader, and an accompanying audio practice to help resource you in your leadership and the wellbeing of you and your people as we work together for social justice. Welcome to our virtual practice space! Learn more and sign up for new episode alerts at www.healingjustice.org