Baltimore Peacebuilders (CMEC) presents
A Conversation with the Author
In-Person: Homewood Friends Meeting, 3107 N. Charles Street, Baltimore 21218, or on Zoom
PLEASE REGISTER HERE (for both in-person and Zoom participation) The Event will be recorded
TO PRE-ORDER THE BOOK Consider reading the book beforehand. It is available for pre-order (coming out March 25th) from Parallax Press, Snug Books, or a bookseller of your choice
In times of collapse, we need a movement that recognizes injustice as a reflection of collective trauma and embraces its role as a catalyst for collective healing through transformative action. We are living in a world where the depths of division, violence, and destruction can no longer be ignored. From political polarization leading to the erosion of the democratic process to the climate crisis continuing to perpetuate racial inequity, we need changes that heal harms at the personal and systemic levels.
Escalated forms of harm require an equally escalated response. Yet social movements often use tactics that have a tendency to escalate an “us vs. them,” “right vs. wrong” worldview not conducive to healing.
In Fierce Vulnerability, activist and author Kazu Haga argues this binary worldview is at the heart of what is destroying our relationships and our planet and offers a new way to create healing by combining the time-honored lineage of nonviolent action with the sciences of trauma healing and the promises of spiritual practice. Fierce Vulnerability realizes we can’t “shut down” injustice any more than we can “shut down” trauma; if healing is our goal, we need social movements that center relationship.
“In Fierce Vulnerability, Haga invites us to understand that there is no freedom or resiliency in a changing world without telling the truth that our freedom actually means healing. This book is good medicine for those of us on the front lines of liberation work who long to root our work in an ethic of care and healing.” Lama Rod Owens
About Kazu Haga
Kazu Haga is a trainer and practitioner of nonviolence and restorative justice, a core member of Building Belonging, the Ahimsa Collective, and the Fierce Vulnerability Network, is a Jam facilitator and author of Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm.
A Conversation with the Author on Wednesday, April 23 @ 7:15 PM ET
In-Person: Homewood Friends Meeting, 3107 N. Charles Street, Baltimore 21218, and on Zoom