REPARATIONS / black wellness clinics
In light of recent events and the ancestral traumas of black communities, Illuminating Color and Earth Arts founded the Reparations Black Wellness Clinics. Stewarded by trusted collaborators the clinics are still offered virtually & in person with chapters across the US.
In this clinic, black healers will be providing a variety of healing modalities to black individuals for FREE. To ensure these care takers are supported in mending the traumas of our community, we are raising funds to guarantee that their work is compensated and the clinic keeps it’s doors open. #REPARATIONS : a black folx only walk-in wellness clinic.
We name and call forth folks of the Black Diaspora to be supported and offer services! In this clinic, black healers will be offering a variety of healing modalities to black individuals for FREE, however, in order to ensure that the community caretakers are being supported, we are raising funds to guarantee that their work can continue to thrive and that they may continue to offer their services to the community for free.
All monetary support will go to paying our selected healers their fair rate, so they may be supported in mending the traumas of their communities, and ensuring that the clinic may continue opening its doors. This is an opportunity for allies to step up and support the healing of our black communities, directly.
From the Clinics’ first steward, Veronica Agard @verosgotthejuice, writer, educator and creator of Who Heals the Healer and Ancestors in Training series
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"We cannot limit ourselves to one method of surviving a White Supremacist system that has multiple methods of harming or ending our existence. If we can be expansive and reclaim our methods of survival, then we can eventually thrive. We understand that reparations were not given to the vast majority of those descended from enslaved Africans across the Black Atlantic. We feel the pains of our people wherever they are and an indescribable longing for a moment in space and time that allowed us to be there for them.
We believe in the resilience of our Blackness but name the dangers in being labeled as magical or superhuman when it is weaponized and embodied literally when our bodies express intergenerational suffering as health conditions.
A path towards reparations that we can experience with all of our senses has appeared in this series. In offering these intentions, I invoke hope as a discipline as spelled by abolitionist Mariame Kaba. With that invitation comes the love and trust to do the work collectively in service of, and investing in, the wellness of the souls of Black folks."“
Thank you for supporting this work!
Illuminating Color Reparations Clinics, Brooklyn 2017 - 2019
virtual clinic by meta.den
META.DEN is a healing incubator, offering the Reparations black wellness virtual clinic. Black folks, RSVP HERE.
new orleans
Soul.Flow is a combined effort by yoga teachers, healers & partners Felice Gee, and vegan chef, Indigo Martin. A holistic wellness initiative, Soul.Flow & Rhonda Walker of @vjanandahealing will be hosting the New Orleans Reparations Black Wellness Clinics, learn more here. Financial data for the project is available here.
new york city
Ebony at Design for the Commons started a free herbal medicine cabinet in her neighborhood that offered free medicine and sliding scale holistic healing services. She was also organizing wellness pop-ups in the city and had been dreaming about running a sliding scale clinic. When she learned about the past Reparations Clinics, she was inspired to use the grant received from the Laundromat Project to start hosting a chapter in NYC.
History of the Clinics
Founded by Illuminating Color and Earth Arts, The Reparations Clinics are chapter based wellness experience for the Black Diaspora, operating in person and online, with a history of amazing stewards co-facilitating since 2018! Thank you Akojaiye Ausar, Felice Gee, Meta.Den and Design for the Commons for continuing this together.
