Date: Sunday, August 10

Time: 12:30 PM - 2:10 PM

THEMATIC

Session 078: Collective Healing: Insurgent Strategies for Community Wellness and Social Justice Movements
Room: Indiana Room

Sponsor: Disability, Mental Wellness, and Social Justice

Organizers: Lily Ivanova, University of British Columbia
Melinda Leigh Maconi, Moffitt Cancer Center
Rebecca Siqi Qin, University of British Columbia

Presider: Melinda Leigh Maconi, Moffitt Cancer Center

Discussant: Rebecca Siqi Qin, University of British Columbia

Description: 

This session explores how collective approaches to wellness can empower communities and create transformative change in societal structures. Papers in this session turn the lens on community organizing – how do groups undertake and negotiate collective action in movements for improving community wellness and healing, including in difficult social contexts, diverse circumstances, across generational understandings, and when collective action itself takes a toll on mental wellbeing? Engaging with a breadth of empirical cases, papers in this session discuss the meanings and strategies of communities participating in social action for collective healing.

Papers:

“Settlers on a Journey: Collective Healing from the Trauma of Residential Schools in Canada,” Lily Ivanova, University of British Columbia

“Disability in Prison Newsletters: The Voices of Incarcerated People,” Margaret E. Buckridge, University of California, Irvine

“The Kids Aren’t Alright: Introduction of Disability Justice Principles to Radicalized American Youth,” Maeve Jillian King, Georgia Southern University

“Rest as Resistance: Instagram, Black Women, and the Politics of Disengagement,” Jacqueline Johnson, Adelphi University

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