{"id":5,"date":"2016-02-29T19:27:51","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T19:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/thespirituallife\/the-radical-work-of-healing-fania-and-angela\/"},"modified":"2016-03-15T18:50:10","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T18:50:10","slug":"the-radical-work-of-healing-fania-and-angela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/thespirituallife\/the-radical-work-of-healing-fania-and-angela\/","title":{"rendered":"The Radical Work of Healing: Fania and Angela Davis on a New Kind of Civil Rights Activism"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Radical Work of Healing: Fania and Angela Davis on a New Kind of Civil Rights Activism<\/a><\/p>\n

\n

sonofbaldwin<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\n

\u201cFania: A lot of people think that restorative justice can only
\naddress interpersonal harm\u2014and it\u2019s very successful in that. But the
\ntruth and reconciliation model is one that\u2019s supposed to address mass
\nharm\u2014to heal the wounds of structural violence. We\u2019ve seen that at work
\nin about 40 different nations; the most well-known is, of course, the
\nSouth African Truth and Reconciliation Commission.<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n

In South Africa, the commission invited victims of apartheid to testify, and, for the
\n first time ever, they told their stories publicly. It was on all the
\nradio stations, in all the newspapers, it was all over the television,
\nso people would come home and tune in and learn things about apartheid
\nthat they had never known before. There was an intense national
\ndiscussion going on, and people who were harmed felt vindicated in some
\nway.<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n

That kind of thing can
\n happen here, also, through a truth and reconciliation process. In
\naddition to that sort of hearing commission structure, there could be
\ncircles happening on the local levels\u2014circles between, say, persons who
\nwere victims of violence and the persons who caused them harm.<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n


\nAngela: How does one imagine accountability for someone representing the
\n state who has committed unspeakable acts of violence? If we simply rely
\n on the old form of sending them to prison or the death penalty, I think
\n we end up reproducing the very process that we\u2019re trying to challenge.<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n


\n So maybe can we talk about restorative justice more broadly? Many of
\nthe campaigns initially called for the prosecution of the police
\nofficer, and it seems to me that we can learn from restorative justice
\nand think about alternatives.<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n

Sarah: Fania, you told me when we
\ntalked last year that your work on restorative justice actually came
\nabout after you went through a personal transition period in the
\nmid-1990s, when you decided to shift gears.<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n

Fania: I reached a
\npoint where I felt out of balance from all of the anger, the fighting,
\nfrom a kind of hypermasculine way of being that I had to adopt to be a
\nsuccessful trial lawyer. And also from around 30 years of the
\nhyperaggressive stance that I was compelled to take as an activist\u2014from
\nbeing against this and against that, and fighting this and fighting
\nthat.<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n

Intuitively, I realized that I needed an infusion of more
\nfeminine and spiritual and creative and healing energies to come back
\ninto balance.\u201d<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n

(H\/T Sherise Bright)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Fania Davis on #SelfCare\u00a0\u201cI reached a point where I felt out of balance from all of the anger, the fighting, from a kind of hypermasculine way of being that I had to adopt to be a successful trial lawyer. And also from around 30 years of the hyperaggressive stance that I was compelled to take as an activist\u2014from being against this and against that, and fighting this and fighting that.<\/b><\/i>Intuitively, I realized that I needed an infusion of more feminine and spiritual and creative and healing energies to come back into balance.\u201d<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Radical Work of Healing: Fania and Angela Davis on a New Kind of Civil Rights Activism sonofbaldwin: \u201cFania: A lot of people think that restorative justice can only address interpersonal harm\u2014and it\u2019s very successful in that. But the truth and reconciliation model is one that\u2019s supposed to address mass<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[45],"tags":[4,2],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-the-spiritual-life","tag-self-care","tag-thespirituallife","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7nB6O-5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/thespirituallife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/thespirituallife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/thespirituallife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/thespirituallife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/thespirituallife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/thespirituallife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54,"href":"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/thespirituallife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions\/54"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/thespirituallife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/thespirituallife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/thespirituallife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}