INCITE! Color of Violence 4

This workshop focuses on Sick, Disabled, Queer (SDQ), and People of Color communities seeking healing and care beyond the system. Being Disabled, Sick, Chronically Ill, Deaf, and/or being Brilliant/Crazy are often understood as flaws. Also as Queer People of Color, we ultimately survive struggles heightened by ableism. How do we navigate allopathic (standard Western) medical care as well as holistic traditions as intersectional people? In large and small group discussions participants will consider avenues of critical intersection as brown, poor, trans, immigrant, disabled, other. We'll share individual and community strategies that challenge ableism and isolation, including simple and accessible practices - meditation, movement, and writing as a tool of expression and wholeness - for individual healing and centering that participants can use and share with others beyond this workshop. (Please do!) Everyone is encouraged to participate, but priority will be offered to those who live with SDQ (Sick & Disabled Queer/Transgender Indigenous or People of Color) experiences. Presenters hope workshop participants will break isolation, challenge ableism and medical/health oppression by developing useable strategies (individually and in community), and engage in healing practices that can use in their everyday lives. *Participants are asked to please bring their journals and/or writing materials. We will strive throughout the workshop to craft all activities to be as accessible as possible.