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A white sheet with unadorned background. At the top, next to the title is a sketch of a plant with long, broad, heart-shaped leaves bursting forth from a cluster. “What’s so radical about this anyway? (Great question!) Trauma-informed care is one lens that one can practice using—and it must exist adjacent to other lenses or else it isn’t fully realized. Anti-racism—committing to behavior without any bias, and fighting racism in all aspects of our lives, in the hope to end it. Equity and inclusion—recognizing that equity is the practice of correcting and paying reparations for past inequities. Anti colonialism—recognizing that settlers and colonizers who are not Indigenous are able to thrive, due to colonization. Disability Justice—understands that ableism connects to all other forms of oppression. Informed consent—uses the awareness of trauma to build ways and steps for people to choose, or agree. Anti-capitalism/abolition—knows that people and nature are not only for exploitation and profit, and seeks to end systems that do not treat these holistically. Harm reduction—reducing harm!”