Healing Justice: Building Power, Transforming Movements
The book doesn’t seek one answer or definition of healing justice, but opens the door for there to be a multitude of ways for it to be understood and applied—always rooted in place and grounded in cultural and political context.
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Rooting Care: How can we ground ourselves in care and dance our revolution?
This experience of collective research has been woven by and between the teams of the four Urgent Action Funds, based in Latin America and the Caribbean (UAF LAC), Asia and the Pacific (UAF A&P), Africa (UAF-Africa), and North America (UAF WHR2); and a diverse team of researchers, coordinators, non-binary and trans activists, women human rights defenders and an Advisory Group.3 It has been an arduous, but enriching and ultimately gratifying, process.
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Healing Through Rituals: A Guide for Sustaining Wellbeing and Activism
Wellbeing is a protracted journey. It could take months, years, even a lifetime. You have already chosen to take this journey; you began long ago and are still going, therefore, make yourself comfortable. You have been gifted a distinctive vehicle in which to take this journey. That Vehicle is your body: your foundation, the home of your dance. It is not something you have but rather what you are. Your vehicle is your body living a life in this physical world, equipped with most things you need. One of your challenges on this journey is to keep it nourished, happy, in good repair, challenging and being challenged.
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Between Fresh Water and the Tides
This publication indicates a pause on the journey that the Mesoamerican Initiative of Women Human Rights Defenders (IM-Defensoras) embarked on over a decade ago, seeking to safeguard not only the defense of human rights but also the dignity of women human rights defenders (hereafter, women defenders or WHRDs) who contribute every day to the construction of more just worlds.
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