Susan Raffo

Susan Raffo (she/her) is a writer, cultural worker and bodyworker with a personal practice who has done much of her work through the Healing Histories Project, a network of abolitionist healers/health practitioners, community organizers, researchers/historians & cultural workers building solidarity to interrupt the medical industrial complex and harmful systems of care. Raffo recently transitioned to HHP’s legacy counsel, Locally, Raffo is a core group member of REP, a Black-led network showing up to support others in moments of crisis or urgency, with care and respect for the full dignity and autonomy of those in crisis. Raffo is the author of Queerly Classed (1997), Restricted Access (1999), and Liberated to the Bone (AK Press: 2022). From April 2024-March 2025, she is spending a year walking from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific. You can find her writing and other work at www.susanraffo.com.