You may have heard the term “Collective Liberation” lately. If not, we’d like to share this term with you to hopefully bring you to a new way of thinking and living. Or perhaps you’ll find that it’s something that your soul has been calling for recently, but you just didn’t know the words to describe the call.
If you’ve heard it before and already know that it’s the path for you, we are so delighted to be there with you. If you’re just hearing it now, welcome to the party!
Collective Liberation is basically calling/fighting for the freedom for all people. No matter class, race, nationality, gender, age, ability, etc. It is recognizing that all groups that are oppressed are intersectional (meaning they can, will, and do overlap) and we are all tied together.
If one group is oppressed, then none of us are free from oppression.
Why is this important?
Because we can’t just call for the end of oppression of one group of people and then be okay with another group being harmed. Whatever we allow for one oppressed group, will eventually be allowed for other groups.
We are all connected, just as trees are connected to one another via their roots (look up mycorrhizal networks).
We must all fight for each other’s rights to life, love, freedom. What many fail to realize that when we stay silent, turn our eyes and hearts from those being harmed by different oppressors (usually rooted in colonialism, which comes from White Supremacy), we are giving the okay to these harms and well they eventually come back to us in some harmful form. If we don’t give in to our true nature of empathy to others, it will not just stop at borders, it will be at our door somehow.
So making it a point to fight for collective liberation, however is right for you, is crucial for the survival of our lands, animals, people.
There are tons of amazing educators, creators, activists, authors, etc to learn from. Our Co-Founder, Jessi Cornett, has compiled a list so lovingly on her site, please check out jessicornett.com (scroll to the bottom to view)
If you would like to add to this list, please comment below. We always love to learn and unlearn.
First step is fighting for Collective Liberation and the second is Collective Healing.
Community is everything and we are nothing without it and LOVE.
We wish you all the love.