Learning Engagement: Working with Survivors who use Violence
“What if we understood the harms we’ve caused and have been part of allowing, not as things that don’t need to be tended to or things that will blow over or be forgotten about in time? But instead as one small part of a collective gaping wound that we have been taught to pretend away that sits in the middle of our hearts, our relationships, our families, our movements, our country, our world? What if we all understood our parts —individually and collectively— in that collective gaping wound?”
- Mia Mingus, Dreaming Accountability
We have designed this learning engagement to create a shared space for dialogue to learn more about:
Understanding the roots and causes of violence when it is used by deaf survivors.
Seeing the ways this violence must be addressed in our advocacy work.
Reframing our advocacy through harm reduction and collective community responses.
Discussing strategies for accountability and support of survivor transformation in response to trauma.