Black Trauma and Healing Justice as a Liberatory Practice

2155 Center Street,Berkeley CA 94720

05 April, 2023

Description

White Supremacy: Black Trauma and Healing Justice as a Liberatory Practice Description Join BSC Activist in Residence Cat Brooks and Alecia Harger for conversation and an artistic journey exploring the role trauma plays in the lives of Black people in America. Cat and Alecia utilize research, art, performance, and Healing Justice modalities to examine the pathways North American Africans chart to surviving trauma, consider how that trauma interrupts the building of thriving lives and liberation movements, and explore the healing modalities necessary for the transmutation of that trauma into healing and action. The event will include an excerpt of Cat Brooks’ one woman show ‘Tasha, about the in-custody murder of Natasha McKenna inside the Fairfax County Jail in Virginia. Panelists Cat Brooks, Abolition Democracy Activist in Residence Fellow, Black Studies Collaboratory, Department of African American Studies, UC Berkeley Alecia Harger, Undergraduate Research Assistant, Black Studies Collaboratory, Department of African American Studies, UC Berkeley Cedric Williams, Director of Photography Accessibility This event is free and open to the public. The venue is wheelchair accessible. ASL interpretation will be provided. If you need accommodations to fully participate, please contact Barbara Montano at [email protected] or 510-664-4324 with as much advance notice as possible. Please refrain from wearing any scented products, including essential oils. Find out more about the Black Studies Collaboratory on our website, Instagram, and YouTube.