DISPATCHES FROM OUR QUEER BODIES IN PANDEMIC TIMES (#20): Susana Victoria Parras

Susana Victoria Parras (@heal2gether) is the founder of Heal Together, a Guatemalan daughter, Anti-Racist, LCSW, Intersectional, Mother and Partner.  Susana is committed to justice and dignity for all peoples.  In this dispatch, we hear a testimony of the intergenerational impact of multi-systemic oppression (separation, neglect, abuse, poverty, disordered eating, alcoholism), the way this trauma lives in the body of a parentified child, and the efforts Susana is making to reflect, transform, honor grief and proclaim:  FUCK THE CONDITIONS THAT HURT CAREGIVERS THAT HURT US.

 

"My practice is to be a whole ass human with my child, with my partner, to keep the distance that I thought I couldn't keep because I thought I always had to be there for my parents."