Communiversity Course Registration

Interrupting Criminalization is offering another “Communiversity” series in Brooklyn starting in September and October 2026!

Last year, we partnered with Women Building Up to organize an anti-criminalization Communiversity series. In 2026, Women Building Up will once again host a Communiversity series organized by IC. This time, the focus is Healing Justice (HJ).

As defined by the Kindred Southern Healing Justice Collective, HJ “is a political strategy…to intervene and respond to generational trauma and systemic oppression, and build community/survivor led responses rooted in southern traditions of resiliency to sustain our emotional/physical/spiritual/psychic and environmental well being.”

Come learn about the unique relationship between herbs and the nervous system! We’ll first gather a basic understanding of the functions of the nervous system while honoring the “fight or flight” response as our bodies attempt at keeping us safe from the oppressive and violent systems we live under. We’ll then learn ways of lovingly incorporating herbs for gentle nervous system support to help sustain us and build resilience as we continue the struggle towards collective liberation. Together we will make herbal infused honeys and vinegars and participants will all leave with their own handcrafted herbal blends, and the basic knowledge to continue deepening these relationships with herbs on their own.

This workshop is facilitated by Mari Vial-Golden, a community herbalist, organizer and theater artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Raised by herbalists and care workers, Mari has been building relationships with plants since childhood and deepening her own herbalism practice over the last 7 years with a disability justice and healing justice framework rooted in firsthand experience navigating chronic health struggles. Mari grows herbs in BK and shares homemade herbal remedies with community members via mutual aid efforts, especially as aftercare support for folks navigating oppressive systems and state violence. Mari's approach to herbalism centers care and collective healing as an essential part of movement work.