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Who We Mobilize and Why

As a political-spiritual strategy, healing justice requires an organized base of practitioners to interrupt the harms of the medical industrial complex; it also requires that social justice movements are equipped to transform the conditions that bring violence and trauma which disproportionately affects QTBIPOC.

Health and mental health practitioners are indoctrinated into frameworks that uphold carceral approaches to care that advance criminalization and disconnect them from community-based, and survivor-led strategies for collective care and safety. Those who ground their work in abolition often face isolation and harm. 

Meanwhile, social justice organizations confronting state violence, are navigating accelerating burnout, grief, and crisis within our movements, and frequently lack the infrastructure to address trauma and sustain long-term struggle — leaving movements vulnerable. When trauma goes unaddressed, it distorts how we assess conditions, respond to harm, and build effective organizing strategies together.

NQTTCN’s mandate is to address this gap by organizing across communities, fields, and practices that do not often work together and are intentionally siloed. We mobilize QTBIPOC health and healing practitioners, organizers and community to deepen political alignment in order to grow capacity for healing justice — so we can unlearn together, practice collective care and safety, and build the collective power we need to fight for liberation.

Learn more about this approach in our field building report.