The Big Shift - by Emilia Roig

The Big Shift - by Emilia Roig

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The Big Shift - by Emilia Roig
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Psychologizing activism won't heal us.

Psychologizing activism won't heal us.

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Mar 11, 2025
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Recently, I was at a protest when a conflict broke out among the organizing team. I wasn’t directly involved, but could hear scattered sentences from a distance, “harm”…trauma response…retraumatised…emotional safety…”. As I watched from the sidelines, I asked myself: What is the goal of this endless cycle of individual emotional processing within collec…

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