Liberation is a word we hear often — in therapy, activism, healing work, and everyday conversation. But what does it actually mean?

In this episode of Human After All, Tanisha Christie, LCSW reflects on liberation as more than a concept, buzzword, or destination. She explores liberation as an ongoing process of becoming, rooted in history, community, care, resistance, and the everyday choices that help us become more connected, honest, and human.

Drawing from liberation theology, Black liberation traditions, Latinx and Chicanx movements, feminist, womanist, queer, and trans liberation frameworks, this episode traces how liberation has always been tied to lived conditions — poverty, state violence, racism, displacement, patriarchy, survival, and collective struggle.

At its center, this episode asks us to hold a more grou ...