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Ours To Heal


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Ours to Heal is streaming for free April 26th - May 9th

In an examination of the American healthcare system, Ours To Heal gathers together films that explore the concepts, actions and institutions involved with caring for and healing people both within and outside of dominant Western practices. Drawing inspiration from the feminist and economic thought of Angela Davis, this series connects how we care for, conceptualize, determine to heal and politicize the human body especially as imbued with the weighted concepts of Blackness, womanhood, and labor.

Full Lineup

The Peoples Detox Jenna Bliss, 2018, 57min.

The Cancer Journals Revisited Lana Lin, 2018, 98min.

The Power To Heal Charles Burnett & Daniel Loewenthal, 2018, 56min.

I Am Somebody Madeline Anderson, 1970, 30min.

Doin’ What It Takes: Black Folks Getting and Staying Healthy Donna Golden, 1994, 23min.

A live Zoom conversation took place on Thursday, May 6th at 6pm EDT with filmmakers Lana Lin (THE CANCER JOURNALS REVISITED) & Jenna Bliss (THE PEOPLES DETOX) moderated by Kazembe Balagun.