So now what, beloveds?
The ground is changing in Minnesota. Ice is melting and it isn’t gone, but it is not the same as it was a few months ago. And yes, I am talking about the frozen water that touches the soil but I am also talking about the mercenaries hired by the Trump administration. They are not gone, and if anything, as of this writing, they have ramped up their targeting of the suburbs and smaller towns. Some reports tell us that there are still 2000 agents in Minnesota and others say 500. We know they are still here, loves, but for some of us, the violent theater of Operation Metro Surge is also shifting.
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collective care , collective change , economic justice , liberation , Minnesota Susan Raffo February 24, 2026 Minnesota , ICE , healing , conflict , liberation , healing justice , Minneapolis , Operation Metro Surge , Trump , community , care , protection , security
because practice takes.... practice
On off-gassing
Officially ending the walk
Giving the bones back
ancestors , collective care , healing justice , bodywork , bodyworker , body practices Susan Raffo February 25, 2024 bones , bodywork , healing justice , healing , craniosacral , ortho-biotomy , andrew taylor still , NAGPRA , Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act , skeleton , colonization , stealing , MOVE bombing
on the evolution of care
ancestors , collective care , healing justice , land and self Susan Raffo September 29, 2022 care , collective care , evolution , ancestors , healing , Susan Raffo , embryology , Mississippi River , Christian supremacy
In honor of revolutionary love: remembering Saint Valentine
What happens to the body when it hates and why it is so pleasurable
eldering and attachment and fear and control, no wonder we hardly talk to each other
ancestors , collective change , healing justice , liberation , aging , eldering Susan Raffo November 23, 2019 healing justice , trauma , aging , elder , healing , Susan Raffo , boomer , culture
how our bodies read the air
ancestors , body practices , healing justice , land and self , breathing Susan Raffo November 7, 2019 healing , healing justice , Susan Raffo , breath , breathing , oxygen , air , trauma
words like sonar: power and communication
Susan Raffo October 16, 2019 healing , Susan Raffo , sonar , language , justice , healing justice , social justice , bodies , trauma , white supremacy , race
The extant of moral injury
healing justice , white supremacy Susan Raffo October 10, 2019 Susan Raffo , healing , trauma , moral injury , perpetration , dominance , war , compassion , military , PTSD , white supremacy
free radicals or the economy of consultants and liberation work
Healing histories: disrupting the medical industrial complex
white supremacy and yeast infection
Healing within the context of land and history
ancestors , healing justice , land and self , self and self , self and kin/community Susan Raffo November 20, 2017 healing , healing justice , trauma , historical trauma , colonization , genocide , land , indigenous , red lining , racial covenants , Minnesota , Mississippi , Mississippi River , Midwest , Dakota , Ojibwe , Minneapolis
#MeToo and I will fight for you
healing justice , sexual violence Susan Raffo November 13, 2017 healing , healing justice , trauma , #MeToo , fight response , fight or flight , women , trans , sexual violence
Unlearning what we learned in school
What people ask us for when they are asking about healing
Gravity, the first reflex
