This Bridge Called Our Health (TBCOH) is a Black, queer, femme-led digital publication, consulting practice, and community resource that promotes dialogue, generates critical discourse, and provides services at the intersections of health, healing, and wellness through a trauma-informed, social justice lens. Under the visionary leadership of our staff, TBCOH cultivates intentional spaces for women and femmes of color and other marginalized communities to embody serenity, mindfulness, and restoration as reprieve from the daily and systemic violence these communities endure.

We focus on curating holistic, community-based, and culturally rooted health practices for women and femmes of color that actively resist the violence imposed by the Western medical-industrial complex. Our work is grounded in disability justice and a rigorous analysis of anti-Blackness, recognizing how overlapping systems of harm shape access to care, safety, and healing.

As an online healing space and digital site of interrogation into gender-based oppression, we invite queer, cis, trans, and nonbinary women and femme people of color of all genders and expressions to imagine worlds free from violence and trauma—worlds that welcome us into the fullness of who we are. Within a white-supremacist, capitalist, heteropatriarchal sociocultural order that has historically—and continues to—erase our ancestors, invalidate our lived experiences, strip us of resources, and undermine the ways we embody truth, we center and celebrate those who resist daily. We honor the divinity of people navigating overlapping forms of violence in order to survive—those whose bodies carry wisdom, whose spirits forge pathways toward health, healing, and liberation.

We amplify stories too often left unpublished and unheard within dominant health and wellness narratives. We hold these testimonies with care and reverence. The experiences of women and femmes of color across gender, ability, and class are at the center of this work. Through this publication, we seek to cultivate a creative, supportive environment where contributors and readers alike are affirmed in speaking boldly, reclaiming self-determination, and narrating survival on their own terms. This is a collective labor of resistance through memoir, reflection, and cultural memory.

The name This Bridge Called Our Health is intentionally grounded in the legacy of the anthology This Bridge Called My Back, honoring the women and femme ancestors whose narratives and knowledge serve as blueprints for liberation. These lineages teach us that healing is inseparable from coalition building and collective care. The work of Cherríe Moraga, Gloria Anzaldúa, Barbara Smith, Beverly Smith, Nellie Wong, Marsha P. Johnson, Audre Lorde—alongside our mothers, sisters, siblings, and fierce femme relatives—continues to shape our understanding of healing from within as a political and spiritual necessity.

We ground our work in these truths and offer this forum as a sacred and meaningful space where women and femmes of all genders can imagine, articulate, and practice our healing together. As architects of new worlds, we gather to build bridges toward collective liberation—guided by care, courage, and shared imagination. Let us join hands and hearts in crafting the pathways that carry us forward.