Radical Rest Mission and Vision

Our Vision

Radical Rest started by T. Aisha Edwards, LMHC on a wing and a prayer in the wake of the George Floyd murder and the racial uprising of 2020. To support the bravery and insistence of the BIPOC organizers and activists who were experiencing steady assaults of tear gas and violence from police, contracted security and white supremacist terrorists, Radical Rest started as a simple mutual aid pop up of like-minded wellness providers offering free wellness services to BIPOC folk. It has evolved to explore and redefine health justice in BIPOC communities and to return our agency about our health back into our own hands. What will never change at Radical Rest is the belief that material conditions of the marginalized MUST occur in the context of belonging and bodily safety.

Mission Statement

Radical Rest is a healing justice collective of practitioners and educators centering the holistic wellness needs of the BIPOC community through access to culturally responsive, health justice events and services and opportunities for anti-oppressive education.

Leading with love, RadicalRest is dreaming a future in which body-mind-spirit-community-environment are understood to be inextricably interconnected and central to wellness. We conceive of a time when the legacy of capitalism, settler and extraction colonization and body supremacy no longer define our orientation to our bodies or delivery of wellness services. We see a world where wellness work is structural, preventative, culturally-relevant, community-driven and is equally accessible to all.

Our Values

Interconnected Bottom Up Emergent

Insight Cohesive Fractal

Intersectional Possibility Access

Ancestral Anti Oppressive Heterarchical

Accountable Person/Community-Centered