Practicing Liberation: Transformative Strategies for Collective Healing & Systems Change | Tessa Hicks Peterson & Hala Khouri, eds.

Reflections on burnout, trauma & building communities of care in social justice work 264 pages | North Atlantic Books | 7.30.24 How do we do effective, sustainable social change…without burning out, internalizing systemic toxicity, or replicating urgency culture?A trauma-informed anthology with contributions from 13 activists and community organizers—for readers of adrienne maree brown, Staci K. Haines, and Ejeris Dixon When your work is inextricable from your identity, your community, and your own liberation, you need a unique praxis of care to sustain it—and for mission-driven activists, organizers, and changemakers working under oppressive systems, making space to center vital needs like rest, self-care, and healthy boundaries isn’t as simple as clocking out.Practicing Liberation reorients collective justice work toward a model that transforms the effects of injustice, harm, and oppressive systems into resilience, joy, and community care. Through frameworks like trauma-informed