Decolonizing Trauma & Healing

Websites/Blogs/Projects

• For SWANA (South West Asian & North African) People
  • Palestine–Global Mental Health Network
  • River Rose Re-membrance
  • Mental Health Support for Palestinians + SWANA folks
• For Everyone, especially BIPOC, Experiencing State Violence
  • The Solidary Apothecary
  • The Fireweed Collective
  • Gabe Torres: anti-oppression, racial trauma & healing, community care
  • love project: supporting criminalized survivors of violence
  • Counseling For All Seasons, Melissa “Mel” Lopez, LCSW
  • Connect with Oumou
  • The Somatic Experiencing International
  • Riotous Roots
  • The Virtual Couch Therapy
  • Sunni Patterson poetry
• For Organizers & Agitators
  • generative somatics (Website)
    • generative somatic groups for Palestine
  • herbal mutual aid in response to ongoing genocides
  • Margeaux Feldman
  • care-based safety
  • the people’s psychology
• For Indigenous People & Rooted Planetary Justice
  • Gesturing Toward Decolonial Futures
  • Reclaiming Indigeneity
  • Cosmic Anarchy
  • Planet: Critical
  • Deep Medicine Circle
  • Stories for Life
• For Anti-Zionist Jewish People
  • Rebekah Erev Studio
  • Transcending Jewish Trauma
  • Jewish Ancestral Healing
  • Ratzon: Center for Healing and Resistance

Resource Lists

• Care In Uncertain Time Syllabus (DukeU)
• Abolition is…
• Abolition Book Club For Mental Health Practitioners
• Strategies of Critique: Care and Cure (Conf)
• We Keep Each Other Safe: Mutual Aid for Survival and Solidarity

Books/Articles/zines

• Militarized Care
  • Psychoanalysis Under OccupationPracticing Resistance in Palestine, Lara Sheehi & Stephen Sheehi
  • Palestine and the case for abolitionist medicine, Ayah Abo-Basha and Sourik Beltrán
  • The Occupied Clinic: Militarism and Care in Kashmir, Saiba Varma
  • The Colonizing Self: Or, Home and Homelessness in Israel/Palestine, Hagar Kotef
• Diaspora
  • The Land in Our Bones: Plantcestral Herbalism and Healing Cultures from Syria to Sinai-Earth-Based Pathways to Ancestral Stewardship and Belonging in Diaspora, Layla K. Feghali
  • Blood Orange, Yaffa
  • dear elia, Mimi Khúc
  • Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route, Saidiya Hartman
  • I hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl’s Note From the End of the World, Kai Cheng Thom
  • Black Liturgies: Prayers, Poems, and Meditations for Staying Human, Cole Arthur Riley
• Soul Wound & Coloniality
  • Decolonizing Therapy: Oppression, Historical Trauma, & Politicizing Your Practice, Jennifer Mullan
  • Herbalism and State Violence, Nicole Rose
  • Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity’s Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism, Vanessa Machado de Oliveira
  • Towards Scarring: our collective soul wound, Cash Ahenakew
• Healing Justice
  • Healing Justice: A Non-clinical Approach, Anissa Rosales
  • Healing Justice Lineage: Dreaming at the Crossroads of Liberation, Collective Care, and Safety, Cara Page and Erica Woodland

Podcast

• How to Survive the End of the World
• The Frontline Herbalism Podcast
• Politically Depressed
• The Love Letter Project
• Become A Good Ancestor
• The Thought Spot (Neurodivergency)
• Revolutionary Dialogues