Restorative Healing
Restorative Healing In the quiet after the election, our community finds itself sitting with familiar echoes—promises unkept, alliances that fell short. The 2024 election has stirred memories of past struggles, where, in movements like suffrage, Black women stood alongside white women, sharing in a vision of equality and liberation. But too often, when the dust settled, our voices were no longer heard, our needs pushed aside. This cycle of selective allyship has left scars that demand focused healing, a healing only we can initiate within ourselves. Kimberlé Crenshaw reminds us that “intersectionality is a lens through which you can see where power comes and collides, where it interlocks and intersects” (*On Intersectionality: Essential Writings*). Embracing intersectionality as part of our healing allows us to hold space for our full selves—our race, gender identity, sexuality, and more—and reclaim wholeness that past alliances often fragmented. In this journey, bell hooks’ words reso...