Feminist Healing Space
An online space that serves as a library for a collection of diverse healing resources. This space holds materials, experiences and thinking around healing justice, feminist values and collective healing as a feminist response to trauma
About the Library
Our Understanding of Healing
As we have learnt from the multitude of movements, organisations and feminists that have done countless works on healing justice, we define healing as a collective and intergenerational process, one that seeks to transform and dismantle a neoliberal and individualistic understanding of resilience and wellbeing and rather understand it as something holistic and systemic. This platform acknowledges the understanding that our traumas and oppressions are the result of capitalist, racist, individualistic neoliberal structures and therefore healing is a political act and the roots of our traumas are systemic and intersectional. We aim to bring together collective practices that can impact and transform the consequences of oppression on our collective bodies, hearts, and minds and foster and create an understanding and culture of regeneration, regrowth and healing.
About the resources
The Feminist Healing Spaces (FHS) collaboration has a working definition of healing justice, which is political and covers many aspects of our social lives. Despite the wide definition and understanding of the term, the materials and resources collected for the website have a limited, specific entry point towards the issue and encompass collective care, intersectionality, burnout, and a more traditional understanding of healing, while leaving the aspects of socio-economic settings, digitalisation, environmental justice, resilience, grassroots mobilising and alike issues behind. Most of the uploaded resources were shared and/or developed by the women’s funds that are part of Prospera, an international network of women’s funds. The resources address and explore the feminist dimension of healing and can be used by anybody who is working or is intending to work on healing justice, but would be most useful for feminist groups, women’s funds and activists.
Accessibility
We are committed to making this online library as accessible as possible to the widest possible audience. We acknowledge that the resources contained in this library are primarily in English due to the nature and sources of the content in this library.
Definitions for this platform
Click here for a list of definitions of the terms and phrases that are used on this platform.
About the Collaboration
Click below to learn more about this collaborative initiative and about the funds that are involved.
Women’s Fund Armenia
Women’s Fund Georgia
FemFund Poland
About Fenomenal Funds
Click here to learn more about the funder of this project, Fenomenal Funds, and more about their work.
The Defining Phase
Above image designed by Carlotta Cataldi
Practicing Intersectional Feminism
Moving towards collective and meaningful processes is the heart of this initiative as well as centring an intersectional feminist approach through a healing narrative.
Documenting Healing Resources
The purpose of the project is to enhance collective care practices among the feminist funds. Feminist activists are constantly living in oppressive environments, where trauma, tensions, conflict and violence affect the ways by which activists communicate with each other.
Assessing needs of wellbeing
Understanding experiences and thinking around the healing justice, feminist values and collective healing as a feminist response to trauma and dismantling neoliberal and individualistic understanding of wellbeing and healing.
Develop a feminist narrative of trauma
Uncover the different perspectives and narratives of healing, wellbeing and trauma among various structurally oppressed groups of women, girls and non-binary people.
Definitions
Healing justice is the practice of reimagining wholeness at the intersection of intergenerational trauma, current structures of oppression, and dismantling racial oppression.
Collective healing is centred on a holistic narrative of well-being and is grounded in the nurturing and regeneration of the mind, body and spirit.
Get in Touch
Women’s Fund Armenia
info@womenfundarmenia.org
Women’s Fund in Georgia
info@womenfundgeorgia.org
FemFund Poland
kontakt@femfund.pl
