Radical Rest Healing Justice Manifesto

Radical Rest holds that healing justice is at the heart of a vital liberatory movement. White supremacy, patriarchy, capitalism, colonization and other forms of socialized oppressions seek to divide, disempower and dissociate all beings from the one body we have and to separate that body from the body of the natural world. 

Radical Rest believes in the words of Audre Lorde self care “is self preservation and that is an act of political warfare”. If we are too sick, exhausted, self harming and hopeless, we are easier beings to control in the servitude of oppressive systems and institutions.

Radical Rest believes in the wisdom of stillness, retreat, self reflection, mindfulness and pleasure as profound and legitimate forces of resistance against oppressive capitalist institutions and worldviews demanding constant doing, expansion, growth, and action.

Radical Rest knows a healthy ecosystem of humans is rooted in healthy interconnected ecosystems of the natural world. Our bodies cannot be separated from the wellness of the planet.

Radical Rest centers the needs of and works to create health access for BIPOC, Queer, Trans, Intersex, Disabled, Chronically Ill, Fat, Immigrant humans. Marginalization was decided for us by worldviews beyond our control. We can cultivate identities beyond “other” in our whole, alive, vital and dynamic bodies.

​Radical Rest understands that health has been defined under the lens of western white allopathic medicine. We seek to expand the definitions of health to include offerings of communal, holistic, natural, spiritual and traditional/indigenous medicine ways and to reclaim our ancestral knowledge of healing.

Radical Rest is not perfect, is evolving from seed, is open to feedback about what’s working and what isn’t and is accountable to the people served. We believe in feeding what works grows. We believe in 'rupture and repair' and 'impact over intention'.

While the work of macropolicy change is imperative to liberatory movements, it is nothing if not met with the individual’s space for safety, groundedness, play, patience, connection and compassion. These factors are the seeds from which all liberatory movements should grow. Above all else, Radical Rest believes in the self emergent, self organizing, self adaptive capacity of the body when given the space and conditions for wellness. ALL PEOPLE have a natural right to those conditions. 


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We believe in the body - that breathes, cries, sings, works, births, reaches, kicks, loves, eats, plays, fucks, makes, thinks, prays, rests, pushes, watches, works, shits, sleeps, tries, throws, flirts, fights, waits, wishes, screams, grows, runs, builds, reads, sits, speaks, learns, walks, gives, dances, yearns,
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