We build community-led health and healing that creates capacity for transformation.
Working for and with communities surviving state and systemic oppression, we build towards futures rooted in dignity, safety and belonging and free from intimate, interpersonal and structural violence. Our practice nurtures the work of radical and holistic medicine to support our personal, collective and structural transformation.
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Rehearsing Freedoms
Today, we start building towards a complete reimagining of our health systems — to emerge from a period of discovery, imagination, and collective growth together with ideas for a just and equitable system of community-centred health.
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Featured work
Deaths by Welfare Project
Our Deaths by Welfare Project investigates deaths linked to welfare reform and the violence of state austerity. The aim of the project is to make visible the slow and bureaucratic violence of the State, and to contextualise welfare related deaths as issues of disability, spatial, racial and economic justice. Read more
![Join us at the BISR Annual Lecture - No more deaths by welfare: Towards life-affirming infrastructures
🗓Today at 6pm
📍Birkbeck Central (opp Waterstones) Malet St.
💻Online & in person
🎟Free and open to all - link in bio!
Our Dr China Mills will share the essential work of the Deaths By Welfare Project tonight at @birkbeckuol
In sharing our ongoing work, we show that disproportionately distributed harm and premature death, targeting racialised, low-income, and disabled populations, is a feature of the (welfare) state, not a bug. By naming this as welfare state violence, we aim to understand the connections across different forms of state violence, building cross-movement solidarity towards life-affirming infrastructures that begin with the truth that no-one is a burden.
[Image description: An off-white background with a collage of various pieces of scrap paper, including newspaper clippings, the Welfare Reform Act 2007, a work capability assessment document and the same quotes as in the other image. The newspaper headlines include ‘Incapacity benefit set for axe’ and ‘Get-tough tests face the sick on benefit’. Another piece of paper reads ‘cuts kill’ in red outlined lettering. There is also an image of a red broken heart and the DWP head office building. Text reads: Deaths by Welfare Project]
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