all that we are The Radical Act of Staying Soft // Grief as a Portal of Possibility with the Emergent Justice Collective - E252
Oct 30, 2025
In a heartfelt discussion, Alexandra Lily-Cather, Valentina Azarova, and Lisa Marie Rudd, transformative justice practitioners, explore the profound link between grief and justice. They reveal how grief can serve as a transformative practice that fosters connection and enables healing. The trio emphasizes the importance of relationality and collective liberation over traditional legal systems. Listeners are invited to reflect on embodied justice as a path to joy and mutual accountability, envisioning a more compassionate approach to community care.
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Justice As An Embodied Practice
- Embodied justice reframes justice as a bodily, relational practice rather than an institutional outcome.
- Lisa Marie Rudd and Alexandra Lily-Cather urge reclaiming our bodies as sites of healing and archive for past and future.
Grief Fuels Or Frees Cycles Of Violence
- Unmetabolized grief fuels cycles of anger and violence at personal and collective levels.
- Lisa Marie Rudd connects breaking cycles of harm directly to creating rituals and spaces to grieve together.
Grief As A Portal To Responsibility
- Grief offers a portal out of guilt and defensive repetition of colonial harms.
- Alexandra Lily-Cather frames grieving as a responsibility that can shift privileged descendants toward repair.
