“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
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.
A soundscape of healing and restoration after loss by Jasmine Kahlia
A short story about the trans boating community by Vic Parsons with art by Kyle Alexander
Handmade collage exploring community mental health care by Lydia Rose
An introduction to trans community healthcare by Dani Singer
Abstract digital illustration of a family keeping each other safe by Amaranthia Sepia
Collages of trans joy by Andi O-K
A digital oil painting of trans care by Mercy Thokozane Minah
A Black hiking group captures moments of wonder from nature
Companions in pain – connecting and healing with SWANA Healing
Guidance for how we show up together in HJL spaces.