Who We Are
Is a Black Queer Feminist led, abolitionist organizing project that creates cultural memory* work to disrupt violence from the Medical Industrial Complex (MIC).
We amplify and honor communal stories towards healing and transformative futures.
Vision
We envision a world free of experimentation and exploitation of our communities and aim to expose the generational trauma of scientific racism and medical abuses. We agitate cultural and political action to transform and heal from harms and abuses of the Medical Industrial Complex (MIC).
Our Values
We are rooted in Black, Indigenous, and Global South Feminism movements that are reimagining and rebuilding our own systems towards liberation.
Team
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Cara Page is a Black Queer Feminist cultural/memory worker, curator, and organizer. For the past 30+ years, she has organized with Black, Indigenous and People of Color, Queer/Trans/Lesbian/Gay/Bi/Intersex/Gender Non-Conforming liberation movements in the US & Global South at the intersections of racial, gender & economic justice, disability justice, reproductive justice, healing justice and transformative justice. She is Cultural Organizing Director of Changing Frequencies. She is also co-founder and Co-Designer of the Healing Histories Project and core leadership team member and founding Director of the Kindred Southern Healing Justice Collective. She is co-author and editor of Healing Justice Lineages: Dreaming at the Crossroads of Liberation, Collective Care & Safety
Portrait by Margarita Corporan.
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Afia Reynolds (she/her) is a reformed Army brat who once dreamed of a future in medicine, but fate intervened. After a traipse through seminary and a series of life changing events she is now rooted in healing practices of an Ancient medium. Her primary motivation is to serve the African diaspora by offering analysis, art, and facilitation experiences that work to repair the fractures caused by colonial Christianity and white supremacy. You can find her sitting in nature, playing a banjo, and singing to the Nsmanfo.
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Brenda Salas Neves is a feminist queer strategist born and raised in the southern Andes. They organize to shift narratives and mobilize resources to support racial and climate justice movements around the world. They have produced media projects to uplift migrant power and rise against U.S. military intervention across Latin America. She moves between the ocean and the mountains.
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tae min suh (they/) currently resides on Lenapehoking territory. they teach martial arts and self-defense to youth and queer/trans folks; play pungmul – a drumming practice indigenous to Corea; are exploring herbal medicine and other forms of body work, including auricular acupuncture; and organize with community groups rooted in anti-violence, queer/trans liberation, and more. They are deeply interested in building out their practices of care, safety, and healing with their loved ones.
