Writing to Transform: A Workshop for Healing and Justice

In recent years, there has been much talk about transformation, both personal and societal. What gets talked about less is what it takes to achieve that transformation, especially when we are talking about healing and justice. In this workshop, through individual writing, we will clarify for ourselves the healing and justice we seek and desire. And from there, we shall explore what concrete steps we must take to achieve that healing and justice and the possible roadblocks we ourselves place in our path towards these goals.

˜This workshop draws its prompts and questions from the writings in the seminal anthology Sana, Sana: Latinx Pain and Radical Visions for Healing and Justice, edited by David Glisch-Sánchez (workshop facilitator) and Nic Rodríguez Villafañe. Using excerpts from the anthology, participants will have the opportunity and choice to focus their writing in the workshop space on one or both themes: healing and justice. Participants will be invited to share what they write, but are not required to do so and are only encouraged to share as long as they are comfortable. We will end the workshop with a conversation about the process and experience of writing about these hard but infinitely worthwhile things.

Although the workshop takes as its starting point the dreams and visions of healing and justice by Latinx writers, participants are not required to be Latinx in order to participate. The anthology was created to center Latinx experiences, but was intended to be a tool to facilitate and promote conversations around healing and justice across and within multiple communities. All that is required of participants is your willingness to be open and vulnerable in the writing process.

Copies of Sana, Sana: Latinx Pain and Radical Visions for Healing and Justice will be available for purchase through Pearl's Books

Host or Publisher David Luis Glisch-Sanchez