publications.
A selected mix of podcasts, books, articles, and essays available online
Books
At the Fork in the Road. 2024.
Liberated to the Bone. AK Press, 2022. Part of adrienne maree brown’s Emergent Strategy Series.
Restricted Access: Lesbians on Disability. Co-edited with Victoria Brownworth. Seattle: Seal Press, 1999. Out of print - link to open source book.
Queerly Classed: Gay Men and Lesbians on Class. Boston: South End Press, 1997. After South End Press folded, many titles were lost. For this reason, you can find the book as an open source free read on my site.
Video, webinars and podcasts
Community Wellness and Collective Liberation, NARM podcast. June 2023.
We as Nature podcast. Cultivating colletive power through tending to individual healing, June 2023.
Raffo and Marcie Rendon, On the power of story as part of collective healing, April 2023.
Raffo and Cara Page in conversation with Arts Exhibit in Taiwan about COVID timeline, March 2023
Raffo and adrienne maree brown in conversation about their new books. Firestorm Books, November 2022
The Haters: Eugenics conversation with Cara Page and Susan Raffo. Part of the Our Dirty Laundry podcast. September 2021
Healing Histories/Healing Justice plenary. NCADV. Plenary conversation with Anjali Taneja and Cara Page. April 2021
Embodying Impact. What is linked below is a two-hour workshop mixing experiential work and content on what it means to move with dignity around how we impact each other. Particularly focused on people committed to social justice who are looking for ways to hold repair and accountability in a right-relationship embodied way. This was originally created as part of the Embodied Social Justice Summit. January 2021.
What if we addressed the trauma that lies beneath the world’s problems? Conversation with Staci Haines as part of Rob Hopkins’ podcast, From What If to What Next? February 2021.
Wellness in the time of corona. October 2020. With Irna Landrum and Marie Michael on the The Sounds of Phillips podcast.
Feminist Futures: Healing Justice. Webinar with Tamika Middleton and Cara Page, a kind of HJ 101. “What is healing justice? Where are its roots in the history of Black feminism? How can it be a transformative force in this particular time? This session will be a panel discussion with leaders in this work discussing both the definition of Healing Justice and also the critical importance of this work in this time. “ August 2020.
Abolition in COVID times: on the relationship between healing justice and transformative justice. I helped to organize and do all of the background for this but was not able to join the recording due to family needs. August 2020
Fortifying in COVID times. A podcast episode with La Cura that I recorded pre-uprising and at the start of the pandemic, but it was released in August 2020.
Healing justice for…. Minneapolis and the broader world. Craniosacral podcast, June 2020. This podcast is focused on the craniosacral community, a largely white (oh my god MAJORLY white) community representing my field of practice. As such, this podcast was, intentionally for myself, focused on a white audience. I give this as a warning - which I name directly in the beginning of this podcast.
Fortification COVID-19 edition. Fortification COVID-19 Edition is a conversation with myself and Cara Page and Anjali Taneja with multiple guests, curated and hosted by Caitlin Breedlove and grounded in our evolving spiritual mandate in and beyond COVID-19. These episodes are centered in the experiences of resistance and abolitionism in response to the colonization and policing of People of Color and Indigenous communities; Queer and Trans; and people with disabilities in the Medical Industrial Complex (MIC). It introduces listeners to the histories that led to this moment as well as the present time expression and future visions needed to transform and intervene on the MIC. Full information and bios and discussion guide for each episode included in main website. Episodes without additional information are also available through I-Tunes, Spotify, Stitcher and GooglePlay. April 2020.
COVID 19 and capitalism. Webinar with Resource Generation. April 2020.
To be in the middle of what is here. Living in this queer body podcast. April, 2020.
What’s police got to do with it? On COVID and abolition. Twin Cities conversation, Reclaim the Block and Black Visions, with Ricardo Levins Morales and Dr. Rose Brewer, April, 2020.
Southside 60. Series of short readings as part of KRSM, local radio in Minneapolis.
Report back from Puerto Rico with Aurora Levins Morales. Video. August 2019.
Fortification: Spiritual Sustenance for Movement Leadership with Caitlin Breedlove. Two-part episode. Fortifications podcast. May and June 2019.
Healing justice. Beth Zemsky podcast. December 5, 2018
Original Articles, Chapters, Poems, and Other Writing
Healing Justice Lineages: Dreaming at the Crossroads of Liberation, Collective Care and Safety, chapter on Healing Justice in the Midwest, edited by Cara Page and Erica Woodland. North Atlantic Press. 2023
Closing forward the People’s Movement Center. A report on the five years of operating a healing justice practice space in Minneapolis with lessons learned and suggestions for others attempting the same thing. Self-published by the crew. 2022.
Love and marriage: not the same thing. In “what i miss?,” a memorial to B. Michael Hunter, November 2019.
Healing Justice: Building Power, Transforming Movements, interview-based report on philanthropy and healing justice, written for Astraea Foundation for Justice. May 2019.
“What happens in my body when I choose you,” in Friendship as Social Justice Activism, University of Chicago Press, 2018.
“More than Skin Deep: Understanding the Deep Sources of White Resistance and Key Tools for Addressing It” with Heather Hackman, in Critical Multicultural Perspectives on Whiteness: from the past and present. Peter Lang Publishing, 2018.
Healing Justice is more than just words on a page. Nexus publications, 2017.
A love letter to white kin grappling with white supremacy. Daily Kos, 2017.
The sweet lull of white supremacy or why white people hate to be called white. Daily Kos, 2017.
Standing Rock Solidarity Network resource packet. 2017. I was part of the group that created this. I am posting it here to support it staying available.
Healing Justice for Black Lives Matters. Grassroots Fundraising Journal, 2016.
Sharing is for babies. Just grow up. 2016. First posted in Bilerico and then later in the Amaze newsletter.
Daily Living for Change Bilerico, 2015.
The Practical, Day-to-Day Details of Being Queer, Scholar and Feminist Online, Issue 10.1-10.2, Fall 2011/Spring 2012.
Healing Justice at the US Social Forum: A Report from Atlanta, Detroit, and Beyond, with Cara Page. 2011. Additionally, thanks to Raoni Bores (obridgada, Raoni), this piece has been translated into Portuguese.
What is happening in Madison is essentially a queer conversation. Bilerico, 2011.
Resourcing: Fundraising as Part of Supporting and Building Community, Grassroots Fundraising Journal, November-December, 2011.
On vacation with the bearded lady. Bilerico. April 2011.
White Noise: White adults raising white children to resist white supremacy 2010.
Good Medicine: Honoring Aurora Levins Morales through thought and action. Bilerico, 2010.
Again the South shall lead us. Bilerico, 2010.
Shifting the Ritual of Thanksgiving, one child at a time Bilerico, 2010.
Poverty, Public Assistance and Privatization: the queer case for a new commitment to economic justice. with Kay Whitlock for Queers for Economic Justice, 2009.
Tidal Wave: LGBT poverty and hardship in a time of economic crisis. with Kay Whitlock and Joseph deFilippis for Queers for Economic Justice, 2009.
Radical acts of queer love: some lessons from September 11th. Bilerico 2009.
Thinking about hate crimes. Reprinted from Z Magazine in Hate Crimes, a book in the Current Controversies series. 2001
Bush scorns Gay Pride Month. The Progressive. June 2001
"Apéritif," in Night Shade: Gothic Tales by Women, co-edited by Victoria Brownsworth and Judith Redding. Seattle: Seal Press, 1999.
"Queering welfare reform," CGN: Gay Community News, Vol. 24, Iss. 2, 1998.
Also a range of other essays and articles in pre-internet locations. For an earlier rendition of my blog.