Structural body trauma
Aku menemukan tulisan ini di salah satu buletin komunitas AWID. Tulisan ini dibuat oleh salah satu anggota dari komunitas Suar Perempuan Lingkar Napza Nusantara (SPINN) yang berbasis di Bogor, Jawa Barat, Indonesia. Di situ dijelaskan bahwa SPINN was born from the lived realities of women who use drugs and experience layered stigma: as women, as users, and as humans who have fallen, but chosen to rise again. Aku salin di sini karena memberi inspirasi dan menenangkan. Di bawah ini adalah rangkuman dari tulisan tersebut.
A time to name how personal trauma is rooted in collective injustice. That is why solidarity is at the heart of feminist healing: to witness, to listen, to hold space. Only through acknowledgment can we begin to heal and learning to breathe again. Trauma no longer defines the end of our story; it becomes the beginning of our freedom.
Every scar holds a story, and every story holds a reminder that we are still fighting. It’s about choosing what to carry, and what to finally let go. At SPINN, healing is both collective and political. We build safe spaces where stories are heard without judgment, where survivors define recovery on their own terms. is an act of resistance against the systems that try to silence us. In the end, we also know that strength can also mean crying, pausing, asking for help. Eventually we learn that healing is a rights, not a privilege we must earn.
Healing is not linear; it is a spiral, a cycle of returning and reimagining. In our experience, healing cannot be separated from social justice. How can one heal when they live in constant poverty, discrimination, or criminalization?
Our bodies were battlefields; claimed, regulated, and shamed. We grew up under layers of stigma, pushed away by family, denied health services, and often subjected to violence that was never recognized by the state. At SPINN, we believe that every time one survivor speaks their truth, the world becomes a little safer for another. We build solidarity not just to soothe pain, but to dismantle the structures that cause it.
Aku percaya bahwa merawat diri adalah bagian dari upaya kolektif untuk meningkatkan kesadaran, refleksi, dan perubahan. Para feminis, aktivis hak-hak perempuan dan pembela hak asasi manusia perempuan (WHRD) terus mendorong pemulihan dan perawatan diri tidak hanya sebagai hak pribadi dan hak asasi manusia untuk beristirahat, berkreasi, menari, dan tertawa, tetapi juga sebagai strategi yang politis dan subversif.