MORDECAI COHEN ETTINGER

“Health does not come out of a bottle, cannot be dispensed by a pharmacy, nor can it be easily or entirely defined by health experts. Health must be defined and informed by us and our wisdom, grounded in the totality of our own experiences, from the laboratory of our lives, our lived in and living bodies.” – excerpt from the Health Justice Commons Vision Statement

We are joined by dear friend and comrade Mordecai Cohen Ettinger to ground us in the powerful offerings of Health Justice Commons (HJC). Mordecai shares definitions and frameworks that serve as anchors for HJC’s organizing. We welcome listeners across a range of familiarity and engagement with these concepts, and have even more info for you in our show notes for those that want more. We hope this conversation, especially in this political context of COVID, sharpens analysis and deepens the great rivers of our imaginations towards more liberatory and whole futures.

Episode music by Blue Dot Sessions

Sound editing and finesse by Dave Pickering

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Connect and learn more about Health Justice Commons

The Health Justice Commons works at the intersections of racial, economic, gender, disability, and environmental justice to support marginalized communities to re-imagine and re-design healthcare and healing for our times.

Disability Justice

Just Transition

Pogroms

Racial capitalism

COP26

Cultural appropriation

Eugenics

Pathologization

Health at Every Size (HAES)

Intersectionality

Cyrée Jarelle Johnson

People’s science

Abolition

Ruha Benjamin

Foucault

Precautionary principle

Healing justice

Bodily autonomy

Bodily sovereignty

Full transcript will be offered shortly!