Coronavirus: Wisdom from a Social Justice Lens

How to Survive the End of the World

Society & Culture

4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2020

⏱️ 71 minutes

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In this bonus episode from Healing Justice Podcast, we bring you advice about how to adapt your travel and gatherings, timely medical information, invocations, grounding practices and reflections from the March 7, 2020 webinar: COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Preparation for People Living with Chronic Illnesses in the United States. Unlike much of what we’re seeing in the media and public discussion, this virtual gathering centered the wisdom and life experiences of people who live with chronic illnesses and disability. The voices you'll hear are: - Kate Werning, Director, Healing Justice Podcast - Maryse Mitchell-Brody - JD Davids, strategist and storyteller, The Cranky Queer - Evvie Ormon, a healer, facilitator and generative coach from Emergent Phoenix Consulting - Crissaris Sarnelli, MD, a primary care/family doctor and healer from Harlem, NY - Elandria Williams, Executive Director and trainer, PeoplesHub - The poetry of Dori Midnight (read by Crissaris) ** Full episode transcript - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NgcA-k-WqEgXFvOU3tTCZ_V5yuse2Cu8m_Cr_RFYfsA/edit *** Access the full list of resources with more information at http://www.healingjustice.org/podcast/corona *** --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/how-to-survive-the-end-of-the-world/message

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0:15.0	Hey how to survive the end of the world listeners my name is Kate Werning and I am visiting you from the land of healing justice podcast. I am an organizer and a seeker of all things
0:20.6	healing and spirit and I'm here by Autumn's generous invitation
0:25.6	to share the following episode with you. Healing Justice Podcast is a gathering
0:30.9	place for organizers and people working for social change to share conversations
0:36.6	and practices that support us in our pursuit of collective healing and social justice.
0:42.3	And we put out this bonus episode earlier this week that's very timely
0:46.8	about coronavirus or COVID-19.
0:50.0	There is so much information out there and it's really hard to navigate should we be
0:54.7	freaking out that it's the apocalypse
0:57.2	I mean if you're here listening to how to survive the end of the world maybe that's
1:00.5	your your pension but or should we be thinking like, oh, it's no big deal, right?
1:06.7	And probably the truth is somewhere in the middle.
1:08.8	And so I had been really, really hungry to find a resource that is coming from the lens of
1:15.9	disability justice, healing justice, of centering people with chronic illness,
1:20.9	a social justice lens, a political lens, so much in the political landscape is already shifting right now with what's at stake in this election.
1:29.5	And on top of it, there are a bunch of new political threats and opportunities that are
1:35.2	emerging with this moment of COVID-19 spreading globally. And so we aren't able to answer all of those questions
1:44.3	in this episode, but we do hope that the following helps you out.
1:49.0	We're gonna talk about considerations
1:51.6	for whether to cancel events that you're in charge of,
1:56.8	medical information that impacts individuals and groups,
2:00.9	invocations and grounding practices, dialogue from a chronic illness centered lens,
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