OUR STORY
The Political Healers Project is a base building and leadership development strategy, a powerful intersectional analysis, and a new way of building campaigns, teams and organizations that center on the lives and experiences of women of color, trans, gender queer and gender non-conforming people. The project comes out of the work of the Womxn of Color table at TakeAction Minnesota. It has grown into a nationwide community and a movement.
We provide training & political education, leadership development, radical hospitality, as well as healing and trauma-informed practices. We also build healing & relationship-centered grassroots bases to develop and mobilize women of color, trans, genderqueer and nonbinary people to impact public space in ways that repair harm and restore wholeness to the broadest spectrum of humanity as possible. Over the past few years we have provided programming and healing practice to organizers, community leaders, service advocates, and everyday people in 9 states - Alabama, Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, North Dakota, and Pennsylvania.
We are...
We are the upfront AND the behind-the-scenes people who anchor our work in the grassroots values of our communities, our tribes, and our kinfolk.
We are the voices who cry out in anger and horror at the travesties bestowed upon our people.
We are the caregivers, the nurtures, the healers, the providers, the inspiration, the song, the laughter, the joy, and the ferocity of our work.
We use ritual to change the conversation and reach people in a new way — beyond politics and tactics. We can be spotted by our characteristic purple stoles.
We are political healers.
Our founding mothers Mich Lovegood and Arique Aguilar in their purple stoles
“If cultural trauma was being erased from public memory, then it was the role of Political Healers to revive those ghosts and have them haunt the public in strategic political ways.”