Join us in the Sanctuary at First Universalist Church on Wednesday, Nov. 16 to celebrate the launch of Susan Raffo's book, "Liberated to the Bone"!

Set for release in mid-November in the Emergent Strategy series from AK Press, "Liberated to the Bone: Histories. Bodies. Futures." addresses the intersections between healing our physical bodies and healing our social relations which are shaped by violence.

Bodyworker and cultural worker Susan Raffo addresses intergenerational trauma, social justice, organizing, and how all of these things are relevant to our bodies. The book illuminates three different approaches to healing: ending violence, the significance of being rooted in the present, and creating the conditions to address unfinished histories and generational trauma. By showing how these approaches are intricately connected—physically and emotionally—Raffo interrupts the traumatic binaries of the political and spiritual, the physical and intellectual, and healing and organizing.

Join Rev. Arif Mamdani, Associate Minister at First Universalist, in conversation with author Susan Raffo on the book and how it speaks to the social, political, and theological moment we’re in.