Conversations: The Politics of Healing and the Healing of Politics | Peatixtag:peatix.com,2011:12021-11-15T11:00:18+08:00PeatixGeorge Town Literary FestivalConversations: The Politics of Healing and the Healing of Politicstag:peatix.com,2018:event-4513782018-11-25T11:15:00MYT2018-11-25T11:15:00MYTSpeakers: Aslı Erdoğan, Carlo Pizzati, Ivan Coyote, Jhoanna CruzModerator: Katrina Jorene MaliamauvConversations: The Politics of Healing and the Healing of PoliticsPatriarchy, racism, colonialism and other systemic inequalities create conditions that leave some of us more vulnerable to depression and mental illnesses. Meanwhile, present-day mental healthcare often treats each of us as individual, isolated cases without connecting us to the social and political causes of our traumas. By alienating us from politics, it also prevents us from finding communal strategies towards changing the conditions that enable traumas. How then can we move beyond collective traumas towards collective healing?Room: Heaven (Level 2)