Guest Post by Yolo Akili
Oppression is trauma. Every form of inequity has a traumatic impact on the psychology, emotionality and spirituality of the oppressed. The impact of oppressive trauma creates cultural and individual wounding. This wounding produces what many have called a “pain body”, a psychic energy that is not tangible but can be sensed, that becomes an impediment to the individual and collective’s ability to transform and negotiate their conditions.
Emotional justice is about working with this wounding. It is about inviting us into our feelings and our bodies, and finding ways to transform our collective and individual pains into power. Emotional justice requires that we find the feeling behind the theories. It calls on us to not just speak to why something…
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Beyond Resistance 
One thing that I think would be worth discussing some more is about the idea of getting support from outside your collective/group/organisation to do this work. Is it necessary? Can we do it ourselves? What do we need to get to the point where we have the skills to do it ourselves? Is it just good to have an outside perespective sometimes? Rather than specialised services, is this something that collectives could offer to each other?