Cara Page
Cara Page | |
|---|---|
 In a 2023 video | |
| Citizenship | American |
| Occupations | Activist, cultural strategist, healing justice practitioner |
| Known for | The Healing Justice Lineages |
Cara Page is an American activist, cultural strategist, and healing justice practitioner. She is recognized as a key figure in the healing justice movement in the United States, bridging social justice, ancestral technologies, and collective care "rooted in Black feminist traditions and shaped by Southern Black radical people of color traditions to transform transgenerational trauma"[1][2][3][4]
Background
[edit]Page grew up in a politically engaged and artistically inclined environment and became involved in organizing for racial, gender, and queer justice from a young age.[1][2][3] Her political formation emerged through community-based and grassroots movements in the U.S. South.[1][2][4]
Career
[edit]Page is a founding member of the Kindred Southern Healing Justice Collective, a Southern-based network of practitioners, organizers, and cultural workers dedicated to transforming trauma and violence in Black and queer communities through the healing justice framework.[1][2][3]
She collaborated with movements for reproductive justice, LGBTQ+ liberation, and racial equity including the Southerners on New Ground (SONG), and served as the Executive director of the Audre Lorde Project, where S. M. Rodriguez also served as a Board of directors.[1][2][5][6]
Influence
[edit]Through her cultural and political work, Page has helped define healing justice as a framework for collective resistance and community care.[1][2] In 2023, Page co-editedHealing Justice Lineages: Dreaming at the Crossroads of Liberation, Collective Care, and Safety with Erica Woodland, published by North Atlantic Books featuring contributions from other queer healing practitioners such as Adaku Utah and Prentis Hemphill.[7] The book traces the origins and philosophies of the healing justice framework, situating it within Black, Indigenous, and queer liberation movements.[2][4]
According to The Appeal, Page and Woodland both emphasized the importance of abolitionist models of care that exist outside the prison industrial complex, offering holistic restoration rooted in dignity and liberation.[8] The Chicago Book Review described the anthology as a "volume much-needed amid racial, reproductive, and environmental justice movements hindered by battle scars and fatigue."[9]
Publications
[edit]- Healing Justice Lineages: Dreaming at the Crossroads of Liberation, Collective Care, and Safety (2023), co-edited with Erica Woodland. Published by North Atlantic Books. ISBN 9780369399120.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 5 6 "A Conversation About Healing Justice with Cara Page". Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP). June 15, 2023. Retrieved October 11, 2025.
An event discussion featuring Cara Page on the practice and framework of healing justice.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Ashe Lewis (BC '24) (December 6, 2023). "The Quest to 'bring our people home': A Conversation with Cara Page". Barnard Center for Research on Women. Retrieved October 11, 2025.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - 1 2 3 "Cara Page 88F's New Anthology, 'Healing Justice Lineages,' Pays Homage to Ancestral Practices of Liberation and Collective Care". Hampshire College News. February 27, 2023. Retrieved October 19, 2025.
Announcement of Cara Page's co-authored anthology celebrating ancestral healing and collective care practices.
- 1 2 3 "Cara Page and Erica Woodland: On Healing Justice Lineages". California Institute of Integral Studies. February 2, 2023. Retrieved October 11, 2025.
Podcast featuring Cara Page and Erica Woodland discussing their anthology Healing Justice Lineages.
- ↑ "Cara Page – Changemaker Award". GRIOT Circle. 2025. Retrieved October 19, 2025.
- ↑ Rodriguez, S.M. (February 21, 2021). "The Brilliance of BLM: An Interview with Dr. S.M. Rodriguez". Global Dialogue. International Sociological Association. Retrieved June 10, 2026.
- ↑ Page, Cara; Woodland, Erica, eds. (2023). Healing Justice Lineages: Dreaming at the Crossroads of Liberation, Collective Care, and Safety. Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books. ISBN 9780369399120. Retrieved October 20, 2025.
- ↑ "Healing Justice Lineages by Erica Woodland and Cara Page". The Appeal. June 6, 2023. Retrieved October 20, 2025.
- ↑ "Healing Justice Lineages: Dreaming at the Crossroads of Liberation, Collective Care, and Safety". Chicago Book Review. 2023. Retrieved October 19, 2025.
External links
[edit]- Living people
- American social justice activists
- Proponents of Black feminism
- American community activists
- African-American feminists
- American women human rights activists
- African-American LGBTQ people
- 21st-century African-American writers
- 21st-century African-American women writers
- 21st-century American LGBTQ people
- 21st-century American writers
- 21st-century American women writers