Ep 92: Countering Injustice-fueled Loneliness

Send us a message via text message! Link accessible at joyousjustice.buzzsprout.com. ✅This week, we’re bringing you Tracie and Joyous Justice’s wisdom from a recent presentation at a colloquium entitled “Jewish Responses to the Loneliness Epidemic.” These past few years have seen a layering of multiple pandemics: Covid exacerbated and made plain so many injustices. Grappling with the weight of the world’s sickness, grief, and trauma creates a specific kind of loneliness that compounds both inherited and personal trauma and has many of us believing we can only rely on ourselves. How can we counter isolation and our own scared-active urgency to do the holy, communal work of planting and tending the seeds that we want to grow, even when we’re not physically gathered together?Find April and Tracie's full bios and submit topic suggestions for the show at www.JewsTalkRacialJustice.comLearn more about Joyous Justice where April is the founding and fabulous (!) director, and Tracie is a senior partner.: https://joyousjustice.com/Support the work our Jewish Black & Cherokee woman-led vision for collective liberation here: https://joyousjustice.com/support-our-workRead about “scared active” in Cherie Brown’s article “The Intersection of Racism and anti-Semitism: The ‘hook’”: https://ejewishphilanthropy.com/the-intersection-of-racism-and-anti-semitism-the-hook/Learn more about Aurora Levins Morales and read her poetry: http://www.auroralevinsmorales.com/Support the showDiscussion and reflection questions:What in this episode is new for you? What have you learned and how does it land?What is resonating? What is sticking with you and why?What, if anything feels hard? What is challenging or on the edge for you?If relevant. what feelings and sensations are arising as you reflect on themes from this episode, and where in your body do you feel them?What key insights or strategies are you carrying forward and how do you want to weave them into your living and/or leadership?