Featured Talks

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Reimagining Care with Cara Page and Premilla Nadasen

Join scholars Cara Page and Premilla Nadasen for a conversation on practices of collective care for, by, and about communities of color. This conversation will look at lineages of care as survival strategies and resistance, and consider ways to build care outside of capitalism. (Oct. 8, 2024)
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'Dismantling Injustice' By Envision Freedom Fund (formerly the Brooklyn Community Bail Fund)

Beyond Self-Care: Collective Care to Sustain Movements

Cara and Carl Hamad-Lipscombe of the Envision Freedom Fund discuss healing justice: how it addresses activist burnout, how it’s different from self-care and why it’s necessary for our collective liberation. (January 2023)

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Sensefield X Tinyverse

Echoes of COVID: Stories Braiding Past to Future with Susan Raffo

Sensefield 感野 is a biennial exhibition that addresses contemporary issues through experimental ethnographic art. The 2023 curatorial theme plays with the phrase HODL, a mantra among crypto enthusiasts denoting a long-term approach to investing, which takes us to the intersection of art, anthropology, finance, and technology. (March 2023)
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The Solidarity Is This Podcast with host Adaku Utah

Healing Across Generations at the Intersections of Memory, Care, and Justice

In this episode, Cara Page of Changing Frequencies discusses with host Adaku Utah how we reclaim ancestral wisdom for collective liberation and shape futures that center collective care and safety and build power. (January 2024)
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Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network's #LiberatingWebinars

How do we survive to thrive?: Forced Sterilization, Eugenics, Disability

Featuring Cara Page and Ma’ayan Anafi, the Senior Counsel for Health Equity and Justice at the National Women’s Law Center and author of the report “Forced Sterilization of Disabled People in the United States,” talking about the ways forced sterilization and eugenics affect the lives of disabled people. (July 24, 2022 )
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The Brian Lehrer Show

Reckoning With the History of Eugenics

Featuring Cara Page and Jack Tchen, professor of Public History & Humanities and director at the Clement Price Institute on Ethnicity, Culture and the Modern Experience at Rutgers University Newark talking about reckoning with how eugenicist ideals are still wrapped up in current social structures, and discuss their work toward what they call an anti-eugenics future. (September 27, 2021)
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Department of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies with the Race, Indigeneity, Gender & Sexuality

GWSS 2021 Colloquium Series: A Black Feminist Talk & Workshop: Rooting in Abolitionist Dreams for Collective Care & Safety

Cara Page facilitated a collaborative learning workshop, as part of the colloquium series “Black People Healing for Justice & Liberation: Fierce Resolve in Times of Crises,” sponsored by the Department of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies with the Race, Indigeneity, Gender & Sexuality Initiative and the Department of American Studies co-sponsoring. (Sept. 17, 2021)

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La Cura Podcast

Cultural Memory and Healing Justice

Cara Page was interviewed by Francisca Porchas from La Cura Podcast: Decolonizing Latinx Health and Reclaiming Traditional Healing. (June 22, 2021)

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NYU Law’s 27th Rose Sheinberg Lecture

New Cosmologies for Freedom in the 21st Century

Featuring Cara Page as the 2021 Rose Sheinberg Lecture Program scholar, offering Black Feminist reflections on our current historic moment of fascism, white supremacy, and anti-Black racism, and explores how healing justice and transformative justice can build the power, care, and safety that we need to thrive. (March 3, 2021)

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Marion Thompson Wright Lecture Series

One Begins Again: Organizing & the Historical Imagination

The 41st Annual Marion Thompson Wright Lecture Series, One Begins Again: Organizing & the Historical Imagination, featuring Alicia Garza, Bill Fletcher Jr., and Cara Page,  and moderated by Barbara Ransby. (February 20, 2021)

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Open Society Foundation

Can Healing Be our North Star: Reimagining Health, Well-Being and Collective Liberation

Cara Page presented on the role of healing justice on the panel ‘Can Healing Be our North Star: Reimagining Health, Well-Being and Collective Liberation’ with co-presenters, Professor Jack Tchen, and artist Anicka Yi. (November 19, 2020)

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2020 Hindsight Conference

‘Our Health, Our Future’ Keynote

Featuring Cara Page as a co-panelist with Indigenous/ Environmental Justice Organizer Maya Lazzaro as part of the 2020 Hindsight Conference, a conference on urban planning through an equity lens. (November 12, 2020)

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Department of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies with the Race, Indigeneity, Gender & Sexuality

GWSS 2021 Colloquium Series: A Black Feminist Talk & Workshop: Rooting in Abolitionist Dreams for Collective Care & Safety

Cara Page facilitated a collaborative learning workshop, as part of the colloquium series “Black People Healing for Justice & Liberation: Fierce Resolve in Times of Crises,” sponsored by the Department of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies with the Race, Indigeneity, Gender & Sexuality Initiative and the Department of American Studies co-sponsoring. (Sept. 17, 2021)

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Project South

Black Feminist Voices RoundTable on the Legacies of Sterilization & Resistance hosted by Project South

Cara Page moderated the Black Feminist Voices RoundTable on the recent whistleblowing of the massive sterilizations at the Irwin County Detention Center in the state of Georgia. Featuring Dawn Wooten, the whistleblower, Wendy Dowe, a survivor with Dr. Michelle Morse & Loretta Ross all bringing powerful analysis. (November 12, 2020)

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Coalition for Whole Health

A Conversation about Healing Justice

Featuring Cara Page and Isha Weerasinghe of Center for Law & Social Policy and Dr. Kima Taylor of Anka Consulting as a part of a Discussion on Health Equity hosted by the Coalition for Whole Health. (October 2, 2020)

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The Public Theatre

Creative Activism: Finding Our Political Home

As we navigate through a series of nested pandemics, the need for community care practices, mutual aid networks, and grassroots political reform has never been clearer. How do we look beyond electoral politics and the Presidential election cycle to find our place in the ongoing movement for change? Featuring artists/organizers Erika Dickerson-Despenza, Cara Page, and Lady Dane Figueroa Edidi. (Sept. 25, 2020)

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Center for Law and Social Policy

A Conversation about Healing Justice with Cara Page

Featuring Cara Page in conversation with Isha Weerasinghe from the Center for Law and Social Policy about the importance of centering healing in social movements, how to holistically respond to generational trauma and oppression, and the connection between healing and liberation. (September 16, 2020)

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Feminist Futures Political Education Series

Healing Justice with Cara Page, Tamika Middleton, and Susan Raffo

The Women’s March’s final installation of their Feminist Future Series features Cara Page in conversation with Tamika Middleton and Susan Raffo to discuss the importance of restorative healing. (August 27, 2020)

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Special Series on COVID-19 & the Medical Industrial Complex on Fortification Podcast

Part I: Past: Rooting in histories, we have been here before. Co-moderated with Caitlin Breedlove, featuring TL Lewis and Anjali Taneja

 co-produced with Auburn Seminary, Anjali Taneja & Susan Raffo. (May 1, 2020)

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Special Series on COVID-19 & the Medical Industrial Complex on Fortification Podcast

Part II: Present: What is emerging in COVID times? Moderated by Anjali Taneja & Caitlin Breedlove, featuring Michelle Morse, Francisca Porchas, and Jack Tchen.

 co-produced with Auburn Seminary, Anjali Taneja & Susan Raffo. (May 1, 2020)

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Special Series on COVID-19 & the Medical Industrial Complex on Fortification Podcast

Part III: Future: Spiritual and political mandates for our future. Moderated by Susan Raffo & Caitlin Breedlove, featuring Erica Woodland, and Shira Hassan.

 co-produced with Auburn Seminary, Anjali Taneja & Susan Raffo. (May 1, 2020)

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Special Series on COVID-19 & the Medical Industrial Complex on Fortification Podcast

Part IV: Abolition in COVID times: Weaving strategies for healing justice and transformative justice. Co-moderated with Caitlin Breedlove, featuring Mia Mingus, Shira Hassan and Sonali Sadequee

 co-produced with Auburn Seminary, Anjali Taneja & Susan Raffo. (August 25, 2020)

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Goethe-Institut New York

Healing and Transformative Justice: Imagining Black Feminist/Abolitionist Future

In a co-curated and co-moderated conversation, Cara Page, Mariame Kaba, and Adaku Utah discuss the current moment through the lenses of Healing Justice and Transformative Justice, imagining a Black feminist future free from state violence, policing, and exploitation. (July 29, 2020)

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Good Morning America

Good Morning America: What Is Healing Justice?

Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors and activist Cara Page explain the theory and the communal benefits. (July 24, 2020)

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43rd Annual Scholar & Feminist Conference

“Its known and unknown powers / to bind and dissociate”: Forensic Surveillance and the Policing of Biology

As we navigate through a series of nested pandemics, the need for community care practices, mutual aid networks, and grassroots political reform has never been clearer. How do we look beyond electoral politics and the Presidential election cycle to find our place in the ongoing movement for change? Featuring artists/organizers Erika Dickerson-Despenza, Cara Page, and Lady Dane Figueroa Edidi. (Sept. 25, 2020)

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