My Body is not a Burden: Erica Woodland

Living in this Queer Body

Erica Woodland, LCSW is a black queer/genderqueer facilitator, consultant, psychotherapist, and healing justice practitioner based in Baltimore, MD. He has worked at the intersections of movements for racial, gender, economic, trans and queer justice and liberation for more than 18 years. In 2016 Erica founded the National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network, an organization committed to advancing healing justice by transforming mental health for queer and trans people of color.

In this interview we talk about Erica’s childhood growing up black and genderqueer as the eldest child of a single mom, lessons he learned from work burnout, queerness as radical imagination, healing justice organizing and the danger of prescriptive self-care approaches and much more.

NATIONAL QUEER AND TRANS THERAPISTS OF COLOR NETWORK

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Healing and Transformative Justice

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LITQB Podcast: This is a podcast about the barriers to embodiment and how our collective body stories can bring us back to ourselves. This is a podcast for people who identify as queer or for people who might think of their relationship between their body and confining social narratives as queer. This can feel like an isolating experience. Our wounded bodies need spaces to talk about struggles with nourishment/disordered eating, body image issues, dysphoria, racism, heterosexism, transphobia, xenophobia, substance use/abuse, chronic pain/disability, body changes in parenthood, intergenerational trauma, the medical/wellness/therapy industrial complex and its lack of inclusion of queer bodies and much more. Hopefully this podcast can illustrate the connections, and resonant pain points, that we have with one another. Livinginthisqueerbody.com @livinginthisqueerbody

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Sound Editing: Barry Orvin www.talkbox.studio

Music: Ethan Philbrick and Helen Messineo-Pandjiris