Register here : https://healingjusticeldn.org/event/the-power-of-somatics-for-disability-justice/
“All bodies are unique and essential. All bodies are whole. All bodies have strengths and needs that must be met. We are powerful not despite the complexities of our bodies, but because of them. We move together, with no body left behind. This is disability justice.” – Aurora Levins Morales and Patty Berne
Organisations, collectives, communities, all people invested in disability justice: join us online in conversation with Patty Berne of Sins Invalid, Lani Parker of Sisters of Frida, The Triple Cripples and Farzana Khan, where we’ll be exploring the interconnections between somatics and disability justice, and their vital role in our movements.
As we sit in this work and continue to learn, holding the complexity and multiple ways of being in relationship to our bodies, we hope to uplift and sustain the resistance and creativity of disabled bodies as liberatory and life-affirming practices in the face of ableist harm and violence.
Come through on Friday 28 April for this session focusing on Somatics and Disability Justice. The practice of disability justice teaches us to think about the body in a politicised way, to think about which bodies are deemed disposable, and to challenge radical movement spaces that rely on burnout without acknowledging bodily/mental limitations or access needs.
With our #RehearsingFreedoms programme, we’re building towards a complete reimagining of our health systems. We want to cultivate this movement of exploration, building and teaching at the intersection of somatics and justice. While in recent times healing has been depoliticised and individualised, this 3-part series explores how somatics, from the individual to the collective body, can be applied to social justice movements. How the work of dismantling oppressive systems involves transforming patterns, culture and community practices through engaging the body; and the techniques we need to learn as responses to trauma caused by social and political structures.
This series is intended to engage and build a community in the UK, including any and everyone who may be involved in bringing about change. As we learn together, the power of this work grows with the presence of every participant, towards sustainable and embodied processes for personal and social transformation.
This is Part 3 of a 3 part series, parts 1 and 2 were on collective transformation and racial justice respectively.
Accessibility
This event is online with closed captioning (live transcriptions) and BSL (British Sign Language) available. If there are any access needs you’d like us to consider, please email info@healingjusticeldn.org.
Register here : https://healingjusticeldn.org/event/the-power-of-somatics-for-disability-justice/
