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In this first-person account, we describe the changes we made to align our graduate student-level community psychology class with a healing justice model. We undertook this intervention because the class started in March, at the beginning... more
In this first-person account, we describe the
changes we made to align our graduate student-level
community psychology class with a healing justice model.
We undertook this intervention because the class started
in March, at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic
stay-at-home directive in our region. We describe the
facets of a healing justice model, which promotes radical
healing and collective action in a trauma-informed
environment. We then discuss the changes we made to
the class to better align with healing justice, including
how enrolled students (i.e., co-authors) experienced the
process of the course (e.g., reworking the syllabus,
starting class with check-ins and an exercise to engage
our parasympathetic nervous systems), as well as the
content of the course (e.g., service projects to support
people who are undocumented, unhoused, or minoritized
in other ways; photovoice). We end with implications for
teaching community psychology, including the importance
of universal design, and for scholar-activist PhD
programs.
changes we made to align our graduate student-level
community psychology class with a healing justice model.
We undertook this intervention because the class started
in March, at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic
stay-at-home directive in our region. We describe the
facets of a healing justice model, which promotes radical
healing and collective action in a trauma-informed
environment. We then discuss the changes we made to
the class to better align with healing justice, including
how enrolled students (i.e., co-authors) experienced the
process of the course (e.g., reworking the syllabus,
starting class with check-ins and an exercise to engage
our parasympathetic nervous systems), as well as the
content of the course (e.g., service projects to support
people who are undocumented, unhoused, or minoritized
in other ways; photovoice). We end with implications for
teaching community psychology, including the importance
of universal design, and for scholar-activist PhD
programs.
Ronak K. Kapadia (UIC) delivers his talk, “Reimagine Everything: How Insurgent Aesthetics and Queer Collective Care are Transforming Our Worlds," virtually at the Center for 21st Century Studies (UW-Milwaukee) on October 2, 2020.... more
Ronak K. Kapadia (UIC) delivers his talk, “Reimagine Everything: How Insurgent Aesthetics and Queer Collective Care are Transforming Our Worlds," virtually at the Center for 21st Century Studies (UW-Milwaukee) on October 2, 2020.
Introduction (0:00)
Discussion (5:30)
Q&A (51:40)
Kapadia explores how the Black and brown Midwest has become the epicenter of a twenty-first century insurgent rebellion against the dominant militarized policing order in the United States. From abolition to healing justice and transformative justice and mutual aid, a new generation of visionary artists and activists from queer and trans Black Indigenous and People of Color (QTBIPOC) communities are offering a crucial wellspring for ideas about survival, healing, and justice in the waning years of twenty-first century US empire. These strategies and tactics circulate widely within contemporary social movements that are working to turn the tide against prisons, policing, and American warfare. At a time when the proliferating calamities of global fascism, neoliberal austerity, carceral governance, climate chaos, and endless warfare appear to be ascendant across the planet, how do minoritarian cultural workers living and laboring in the heart of empire make sense of this dying world order while dreaming up new worlds through their art-making and organizing? The ecology of minoritarian art and activism emerging from today’s overlapping protest movements offer a powerful roadmap for understanding the dystopian here and now of US imperial decline and imagining rebellious futures that can move us from despair and isolation to coalition and transformation.
Introduction (0:00)
Discussion (5:30)
Q&A (51:40)
Kapadia explores how the Black and brown Midwest has become the epicenter of a twenty-first century insurgent rebellion against the dominant militarized policing order in the United States. From abolition to healing justice and transformative justice and mutual aid, a new generation of visionary artists and activists from queer and trans Black Indigenous and People of Color (QTBIPOC) communities are offering a crucial wellspring for ideas about survival, healing, and justice in the waning years of twenty-first century US empire. These strategies and tactics circulate widely within contemporary social movements that are working to turn the tide against prisons, policing, and American warfare. At a time when the proliferating calamities of global fascism, neoliberal austerity, carceral governance, climate chaos, and endless warfare appear to be ascendant across the planet, how do minoritarian cultural workers living and laboring in the heart of empire make sense of this dying world order while dreaming up new worlds through their art-making and organizing? The ecology of minoritarian art and activism emerging from today’s overlapping protest movements offer a powerful roadmap for understanding the dystopian here and now of US imperial decline and imagining rebellious futures that can move us from despair and isolation to coalition and transformation.