Left Image description: Two smiling people holding bouquets of colorful flowers stand next to each other. You can see a tree in the background between them. The person on the left is tan skinned. They have long black wavy hair. They are wearing a blue denim jacket, a blue sweater & a red & turquoise necklace. The person on the right is dark brown skinned. They are wearing silver hoop earrings, a snug fitting brown knitted hat & a white button up long sleeve blouse. Right Image description: A circle of five people ranging from fair skinned to dark brown engaged in discussion. The person in the center is using their hands to express what they are saying while everyone else in the circle is focused on them. Some of them hold notebooks & pens. In the background you can see another circle engaged in discussion. Further behind are two people standing in conversation. One of them holds a plate of food.
Upcoming EVENTS
After an amazing 10yr anniversary celebration on 10/14, the hcc will not be holding events until the new year
🖤 Please check back then 🖤
recent events
speakers
Dr. Rupa Marya is a physician, activist, writer, mother, and a composer. She is a Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, where she practices and teaches internal medicine. Her work sits at the nexus of climate, health and racial justice. Dr. Marya founded the Deep Medicine Circle (DMC), an organization committed to healing the wounds of colonialism through food, medicine, story, restoration and learning. Bringing together farmers, artists, land stewards, cooks, activists and healthcare workers, the DMC is advancing a model of the food system based in whole systems health called Farming is Medicine. She has toured twenty-nine countries with her band, Rupa and the April Fishes, whose music was described by the legend Gil Scott-Heron as “Liberation Music.” Together with Raj Patel, she co-authored the bestselling book Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice.
M. Verónica Iglesias was born in Mexico City, Mexico. She has a Master’s Degree in Mesoamerican Studies from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. She received the sacred sahumador at 9 years old & is a carrier of sacred fire. She has a master in crystal therapy and healing with Obsidian with the methodology of Ana Silvia Serrano. She studied ancestral medicine with different indigenous healers in Mexico, learning about the temazcal, plants, minerals, rituals & ceremonies. She was initiated as a Ix´Cheel priestess, the mayan deity of medicine. In 2008 she started working in facilities for people in recovery in Mexico City. She saw how thisdifferent modalities of healing where very accepted by the clients and how they feel better after a session with her. From 2010 to 2019 she worked at Hoy Recovery Program at Española, offering diverse modalities of ancient healing, as temazcal (Mesoamerican Sweat Lodge), meditation, crystaltherapy & Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) for people in recovery form addictions. In 2017 she was certified as a Professional Trainer in Super Health, a technology developed by Yogi Bhajan based in the use of Kundalini Yoga, Nutrition, Exercise, Meditation, & Service. She created a retreat for women who experience sexual abuse using the archtypes of 10 Aztec feminine deities. In 2018 she was certified as a Holistic Nutritionist and as a Holistic Wellness Coach by the American Association of Drugless Practiotioners. She is the author of 6 books, two of them about Medicinal Plants. She is co-creator of the Jade Oracle, a deck of 52 cards with Mesoamerican deities and symbols. Since 2015 she had been teaching the ancestral medicinal arts from Mesoamerica, called Ticiyotl topersons who wanted to reconnect with their cultural and spiritual roots.
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Susana Cáceres is a resource mobilizer, coach, consultant and founder of CipotaVoz Strategies. She facilitates the freeing of money specifically to QTBIPOC organizations and communities in the US and Latin America. She is a queer embryonic immigrant, made in El Salvador, who has worked in nonprofits for over 30 years and held the position of Executive Director for two femme organizations. Susana speaks her truth as a bruja, drum keeper, ceremonialist, singer, amateur filmmaker and teacher of Self-Love & Abundance.
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Gopal Dayaneni is an educator, organizer and activist focused on racial, economic and ecological justice who currently teaches at San Francisco State University. Gopal also supports social movements through various organizing projects. Gopal believes that grassroots, bottom-up, inter-generational social movements on the frontlines of the interconnected crises of social inequity and ecological erosion are the key to deep, transformative change-making. Gopal co-founded Movement Generation: Justice and Ecology Project, a collective committed to realigning movement strategy with the healing powers of living systems.
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performers
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Singer-songwriter Esotérica Tropical draws inspiration from over 20 years of experience as a healer –including tai-chi and qi-gong practice, taoist cosmology, meditation, traditional medicine practitioner and acupuncturist. Her music is rooted in a continuous process of discovery and care, where trauma is transformed into art.
A self-described “weird, cosmic, and queer islander” from Puerto Rico, Esotérica Tropical’s musical journey began as a student of classical vocal performance in Puerto Rico’s prestigious Conservatory of Music. After a series of health issues derailed her music studies, she began treatment for Hashimoto’s disease in 2009, including daily swims at San Juan’s El Escambrón beach. It was there on one serendipitous day that she was approached by the lifeguard on duty ––to her surprise, her friend Constanza, a violinist she’d met during her conservatory days. While catching up, Esotérica confessed to her friend she had begun making up songs in the shower, and the very next day Constanza had gifted her her first harp (one she had bought on eBay, curiously enough, from Puerto Rican composer Angélica Negrón. That chance encounter led to Esotérica Tropical’s first collection of songs, the self-released Estrellas EP (2014). Currently moving between Puerto Rico and Oakland, California, Esotérica Tropical’s forthcoming album Esotérica Tropical is due out early next year. |
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La Colectiva de Bomba is a group of friends who gather to share Bomba, traditional Afro Puerto Rican music and dance. We represent the diaspora of Borikén (Puerto Rico) and are committed to honoring the roots of this resistance music and its call for community, healing, and our collective liberation.
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a five week series for qtbipoc
Starting on July 2nd & ending on July 30th. We will meet on Sundays from 10am to 12pm PT. 🖤
Registering for this series is a commitment to cultivating community & spending concentrated time on self reflection, self care & ancestral exploration. All while being lovingly witnessed & supported by the community we create together. 🖤
Additionally, you will be guided into making you own altar, which will become the anchor towards creating a daily practice that serves both your spiritual development & your connection with your ancestors. 🖤
This series is being facilitated by HCC Core Member, RaheNi Gonzalez (they, them, ra). Before registering, please make sure that you can attend all 5 sessions as they will not be recorded & each session will build upon the next. 🖤
Registering for this series is a commitment to cultivating community & spending concentrated time on self reflection, self care & ancestral exploration. All while being lovingly witnessed & supported by the community we create together. 🖤
Additionally, you will be guided into making you own altar, which will become the anchor towards creating a daily practice that serves both your spiritual development & your connection with your ancestors. 🖤
This series is being facilitated by HCC Core Member, RaheNi Gonzalez (they, them, ra). Before registering, please make sure that you can attend all 5 sessions as they will not be recorded & each session will build upon the next. 🖤
liberation & healing for all of us
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A Special Disability Justice Series for Healing Practitioners on
Wednesday, April 12th from 5:30 - 8pm PT & Wednesday, April 19th from 5:30 - 8pm PT Our intention for this series is to create a space for Healing Practitioners both within our network and within the broader community to address and discuss systemic ableism, ableism within our (healing) practices and the history of Disability Justice in the US and the roots of the Healing Justice Movement. We hope to weave together an understanding of how many aspects of our collective movement work intersect with and include Disability and Healing justice, including Abolition, reproductive rights, etc... To help our community delve into this important work we enlisted the support of AnteUp. AnteUp's philosophy is "Guided by all the best components that have come from spaces communities created, ANTE UP! is a call to action and a guiding philosophy for who we want to be and the world we want to be a part of creating. Our curriculum uses social-emotional learning as early Freedom Schools in the US south offered, centering care and healing through common experiences and community support is what guides us in creating assessments and activities advised by a doula framework, the knowledge that there are other paths to justice not only one, and our value in media making for using the common phrase ANTE UP! to move all in for the greatest experience for all to win. We all must ANTE UP! for healing, justice, and liberation." We are deeply grateful to Bianca I Laureano, AnteUp founder for saying yes to our request! We are also soooo happy to have Freedom Community Clinic & Health Justice Commons sponsoring the series! This Liberation & Healing work is truly for all of us! |
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