Inside Movement Medicine: Meet Joon-Lynn

Movement Medicine is a multi-year commitment to deepen in embodied practice alongside other organisers, movement workers, cultural workers, and healthcare providers. In this series we explore how it has impacted people individually and its importance in building towards liberated futures. Here, cultural organiser and co-founding director of Migrants in Culture Joon-Lynn speaks with Movement Medicine Senior Programme Lead Nishma Jethwa about her journey so far.

Rootwork: Re-membering for Black Liberation

“We have a felt sense that something’s wrong. Being able to feel it and work through that to get us back to the place of re-imagining: the dream space, connecting with our internal sense of hope and possibility that I feel can only come from the information our body gives us.”

Rootwork & The Resilience Toolkit: Building Capacity to Stay in Relationship (with self and others)

This work helped me navigate the tension between how safe it is to feel, how much there is to feel, and how to stay present enough to continue organising without shutting down or burning out.

Rootwork: Reimagining the Future Starts in the Body

“Taking just a few minutes to land in our bodies changes the quality of how we are together. It creates a different foundation for connection, conversation, and collective imagination, and my hope is that we can all build on those skills and apply them to our daily practices.”

Rootwork: Like The Seeds of a Pomegranate

Breathing Spaces: Crisis, Denial, and Building Collective Care in the Age of Pandemics

This report reflects on the Covid-19 pandemic, the denial of its ongoingness and how folks who are positioned as most vulnerable to the virus continue to organise to collectively respond to the current moment.

Inside Movement Medicine: Meet Macole

“I’m learning how it also starts from the self and how it is at the cellular level in which we create ripples and changes at a more macro scale. Innerstanding that being in the body, as a site of transformation, simultaneous effects broader structures. So much of the time we are understanding oppression by intellectualising it.”

Dear Comrade…

One of the strengths of our movements for liberation is in turning towards the trouble, not away. A letter drawing on a transformative justice lens to resist polarisation.

Building Collective Power & Preparing to Govern

Exploring the internal and external work. We offer this space for all of us – organisers, liberation workers, community leaders, healers, and abolitionists – to learn about the embodied competencies we need to cultivate in order to build and tolerate power, and reckon with what it costs us when, instead, we default to shame or making ourselves smaller.

So you want to research Palestine?

Researching Palestine as an anti-Zionist academic and mental health practitioner situated in the Global North

No going back

HJL’s Health Justice Researcher Dr Stephanie Davis writes on the future of collective care, labour and organising in this short fiction piece.

Community Accountability, Research and Ethics (CARE)

Together we imagine what research ethics could look like if it was accountable to communities and movements and practise ethical research differently