Susan Raffo is the author of Liberated to the Bone, part of adrienne maree brown’s Emergent Strategy Series from AK Press. She is also currently spending a year walking from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and will be in Ithaca as part of that walk. This event is going to be a mix of conversation and practice, all of it sitting around the question guiding her walk: what does it mean to live on this land in a good way – together. This is not an idealistic question, but a deeply practical one embedded with 500+ years of colonial and racial violence and so much resistance, reclamation and remembering. This question holds in its heart the fact of genocide, of climate destruction, and of increasing surveillance technologies that depend on eugenic profiling to determine who fits and who doesn’t and also the fact that within a week of closing down capitalism in light of COVID, wolves were spotted walking through Minnesota cities. Raffo’s work is grounded in healing justice and her work in Minneapolis has included being part of healing justice and abolition strategies.