The Water Remembers Us — Healing as Memory, Blood and Throughline

Lilac Flower
Lilac Flower

On the final day of Iranti ẹ̀jẹ̀ — Remembering Blood, we return to the element that carries us all: Water. Water holds memory. Water connects us across generations, geographies, and grief. It flows through bloodlines, birth canals, tears, and tides—reminding us that healing is never a solitary act, but a collective, ancestral continuum.

In this deeply resonant offering, writer, healer, and radical truth-teller Sonya Renee Taylor gathers an intergenerational circle of healers whose work spans clinical, carceral, communal, and spiritual spaces. Together, they will explore the memory held in our blood and bones, the sacred labor of healing in a world that often profits from our pain, and the possibilities of collective care that center the wisdom of Osun, Yemonja, and all water-bearing forces of nature.

This panel is a sacred tide of testimony, where stories will be poured, voices will be lifted, and the throughline of healing will be honored as both memory and mandate.

PANEL DETAILS

Oct 12, 2025

Iris Ballroom

1pm

PANELISTS

Naimah Efia
gina Breedlove
Mona Eltahawy 
Michaela Harrison