{"id":1831,"date":"2020-12-10T16:18:56","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T16:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/ecg\/?p=1831"},"modified":"2020-12-10T16:24:23","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T16:24:23","slug":"decolonizing-our-relations-healing-justice-breaking-the-cycle-of-violence-with-ignacio-rivera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/ecg\/decolonizing-our-relations-healing-justice-breaking-the-cycle-of-violence-with-ignacio-rivera\/","title":{"rendered":"Decolonizing Our Relations: Healing Justice &amp; Breaking the Cycle of Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr \/>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.igrivera.com\/\">Ignacio Rivera<\/a><\/strong>, founder and executive director of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/heal2end.org\/\">The HEAL Project<\/a><\/strong>, presented the kick-off lecture of the fourth annual Engage conference, <strong>\u201cDecolonizing Our Relations: Healing Justice &amp; Breaking the Cycle of Violence.\u201d <\/strong>An internationally known Queer, Trans\/Yamok\u00e1-hu\/Two-Spirit, Black-Boricua, and Ta\u00edno speaker, educator, writer, and performer, they bring over 20 years of experience on multiple fronts, including economic justice, anti-racist and anti-violence work, as well as mujerista, LGBTQI, and sex positive movements.<\/p>\n<p>Rivera discussed restorative and transformative justice practices in Black and Brown communities that emphasize community-based, long term practices as alternatives to state intervention. <a href=\"https:\/\/racebaitr.com\/2020\/08\/26\/police-cant-save-children-from-sexual-abuse-but-we-must\/\">Learn more about Rivera\u2019s writing on the subject.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[Content notes: Rivera&#8217;s writing and keynote lecture may include discussions of survivorship around sexual, racial, gender-based, and state violence, as we work together to understand and heal realities of harm and violence in our communities.]<\/p>\n<p>Rivera\u2019s keynote address launched us into a full day of <a href=\"http:\/\/hamp.it\/engage\">interactive community education workshops<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ignacio Rivera, founder and executive director of The HEAL Project, offered the kick-off lecture of the fourth annual Engage conference, \u201cDecolonizing Our Relations: Healing Justice &amp; Breaking the Cycle of Violence.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1217,"featured_media":1833,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36294,51896,4326],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-common-good-events","category-homepage-featured","category-upcoming-events"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/ecg\/files\/2020\/10\/Ignacio-Rivera-Promo-e1607617380233.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/ecg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1831"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/ecg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/ecg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/ecg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/ecg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1831"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/ecg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1837,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/ecg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1831\/revisions\/1837"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/ecg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/ecg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/ecg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/ecg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}