Cara Page

Cara Page is an American activist, cultural strategist, and healing justice practitioner. She is recognized as a key figure in the healing justice movement in the United States, bridging social justice, ancestral technologies, and collective care “rooted in Black feminist traditions and shaped by Southern Black radical people of color traditions to transform to transform transgenerational trauma.”^[1][2][3][4]

Page grew up in a politically engaged and artistically inclined environment and became involved in organizing for racial, gender, and queer justice from a young age.^[1][2][3] Her political formation emerged through community-based and grassroots movements in the U.S. South.^[1][2][4]

Page is a founding member of the Kindred Southern Healing Justice Collective, a Southern-based network of practitioners, organizers, and cultural workers dedicated to transforming trauma and violence in Black and queer communities through the healing justice framework.^[1][2][3]

She has also served as the executive director of the Audre Lorde Project and collaborated with movements for reproductive justice, LGBTQ+ liberation, and racial equity including the Southerners on New Ground (SONG).^{[1][2][3][5][6]}

In 2023, Page co-authored Healing Justice Lineages: Dreaming at the Crossroads of Liberation, Collective Care, and Safety with Erica Woodland, published by North Atlantic Books featuring contributions from other queer healing practitioners such as Adaku Utah and Prentis Hemphill.^[7] The book traces the origins and philosophies of the healing justice framework, situating it within Black, Indigenous, and queer liberation movements.^[2][4]

According to The Appeal, Page and Woodland both emphasized the importance of abolitionist models of care that exist outside the prison industrial complex, offering holistic restoration rooted in dignity and liberation.^[8]

The Chicago Book Review described the anthology as a “volume much-needed amid racial, reproductive, and environmental justice movements hindered by battle scars and fatigue.”^[9]

Through her cultural and political work, Page has helped define healing justice as a framework for collective resistance and community care.^[1][2] Her advocacy and collective care strategies continue to influence contemporary understandings of wellbeing and liberation in social movements, as stated by the California Institute of Integral Studies, “that push beyond commodified self-care, the policing of the medical industrial complex, and the surveillance of the public health system.”^[4][10]

• Healing Justice Lineages: Dreaming at the Crossroads of Liberation, Collective Care, and Safety (2023), co-authored with Erica Woodland. Published by North Atlantic Books. ISBN 9780369399120.

• Prentis Hemphill
• Erica Woodland
• Adaku Utah

• Kindred Southern Justice Collective
• Cara Page