This Bridge Called Our Health: (Re)imagining Our Minds, Bodies, and Spirits

by Danielle Elizabeth Stevens: Director, Moonlight Wellness (Formerly, This Bridge Called Our Health) Hi friends! We are happy to announce our name change to Moonlight Wellness! When This Bridge ...

https://thisbridgecalledourhealth.wordpress.com/2019/10/07/announcing-our-name-change-moonlight-wellness/

 Dear UCSB Administration and Feminist Studies Department, As alumni and allies, we are writing to you this Pride month to express our shock, outrage, and disappointment that gender nonconformin...

https://thisbridgecalledourhealth.wordpress.com/2019/06/14/alumni-allies-say-no-to-transphobia-at-ucsb/

On #GivingTuesday, Danielle Elizabeth Stevens of This Bridge Called Our Health is Launching Waging Love: A Digital Healing Retreat for Activists. To donate, click here. In the world of social j...

https://thisbridgecalledourhealth.wordpress.com/2018/11/27/this-new-video-series-addresses-the-harm-of-disposability-culture-in-the-social-justice-world/

By Danielle Elizabeth Stevens As a young Black girl growing up in a poor, single-parent household in Long Beach CA, I watched day in and day out as my mother hustled around the clock to keep food...

https://thisbridgecalledourhealth.wordpress.com/2017/08/02/janet-mock-misogynoir-and-how-your-silence-will-not-protect-you/

By Luna Merbruja Dearly Beloved, If you are reading this article, it’s probably because you’re taking the time to start intentionally processing your trauma. I know the pathway to beginning a...

https://thisbridgecalledourhealth.wordpress.com/2017/03/06/4-suggested-boundaries-and-techniques-while-writing-about-trauma/

By Karen B. Hanna *This piece was first published in Hyphen Magazine’s Fall 2015 Health Issue. Survival has not always been my primary mode of being. A middle-class upbringing, loving parents ...

https://thisbridgecalledourhealth.wordpress.com/2016/10/11/living-beyond-survival-11-tips-for-women-of-color-in-academia/

By Danielle Stevens Dear Black Women, Femmes, and Girls, Who are neglected and ignored within public discourses around police violence and brutality; Who are told our stories do not fit into main...

https://thisbridgecalledourhealth.wordpress.com/2016/08/04/dear-black-women-femmes-girls-a-love-letter-for-us/

By Danielle Stevens | Co-Founder of This Bridge Called Our Health They tell us celebrate independence today; that every July 4th we celebrate America, these “United” States. and we are suppos...

https://thisbridgecalledourhealth.wordpress.com/2016/07/04/for-black-folks-who-still-need-healing-when-the-fireworks-arent-enough/

By Danielle Stevens | Co-Founder of This Bridge Called Our Health your grief is stardust. vast and kaleidoscopic elusive, and yet so familiar. personal and divine. a dark, stormy, tumultuous and ...

https://thisbridgecalledourhealth.wordpress.com/2016/06/14/how-to-be-tender-with-your-grief-while-holding-orlando-in-your-heart/

By Danielle Stevens and Annie Alexandrian | Co-Founders of This Bridge Called Our Health (This Bridge Called Our Health is a volunteer-run platform for Black women, femmes, and girls, and non-Bl...

https://thisbridgecalledourhealth.wordpress.com/2016/04/07/re-imagining-worldhealthday-challenging-dominant-discourse-and-what-health-actually-means-for-women-and-femmes-of-color/