We need collective healing not commodified self-care.
: My name is Erica Woodland. I use he, him, his pronouns. I’m currently based in Baltimore, also known as the Land of the Piscataway. And I’m a Black queer, trans facilitator and psychotherapist and I’ve been doing work at the nexus of abolitionist organizing and collective care for the past 20 years. And I came into this work by way of harm reduction and organizing around the abolition of the prison-industrial complex and as well as the freedom of all political prisoners.
And so she’s a great example also of how we use different strategies for liberation based on what is possible. So when she was doing her work to escape enslavement, she was breaking the law, she was taking risk, but she also, then, aligned on some level with the state to also further her liberation work. But I love the fact that she really lifts up an example of how we understand risk and what risks we have to take collectively in the context of our liberation work.
So when we think about things like escapism, when we think about things that get pathologized like self-medicating and substance abuse and addiction. We know that our people’s ways of recovering and surviving have been criminalized. And what we can draw from over the decades of time, since the state and COINTELPRO intentionally disrupted and assassinated our movement leaders, we know that the state will weaponize and capitalize off of our suffering and our attempts to heal and recover.
“How will we actually build traditions that actually move over this false notion of divide between allopathic Western-based practitioners and energy, earth, body-based practitioners?” The importance of organizing practitioners, in a society that often pits clinicians against patients, feels especially urgent in these times.: We will not achieve liberation without health and healing practitioners. And one of the pieces that I think is so important that we try to lift up in the book is that health and healing practitioners have always been a part of our liberation work.
We’re in a time where I’m in my early 40s, so technology was not giving what it’s giving now when I was in my early 20s, when I was becoming politicized and becoming conscious. And so with the role of technology and social media, the speed with which we can get access to things, out of context, can be quite scary when we think about this conversation around co-optation and the interruption of that intergenerational transfer of knowledge that’s so central to our survival.
But this is a big question because healing and health are so intertwined with colonization and these ideas of who is healthy and who is diseased, who’s expendable and who is not. Deeply embedded in like this eugenic framing of literally our Black genetic materials, our disabled genetic materials, our Indigenous genetic materials are not valued if they are not producing labor to build in wealth for the elite, the elite wealthy capitalist structure.
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