Creating spaces that are safe is admirable, and our addiction to safety (I wonder sometimes if it’s more about comfort, lack of conflict, or a desire to create set it and forget it containers) has at times devolved into long periods of agreement setting and developing a list of rules for every possible way of relating to one another, where the

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When we politicize our practices and models of trauma and healing, we learn not to solely depend on the individual-focused techniques that alleviate the pain and distress, but to also mobilize and collectively organize ongoing disruptions:

To disrupt the systemic root causes of the threats and dangers that target the oppressed.

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