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Search results for: disability justice

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.

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.

 illustration by Sabba Khan of a portal with Black and brown hands reaching through to pull a brown woman in a white dress through towards some food

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.

 a crowd is in shadow in the foreground and a banner in the background reads 'dead people don't claim'

Deaths by Welfare

Explore the the Deaths by Welfare Project timeline, podcasts, resources, and videos. Together we are transforming our understanding of welfare state violence.

 A plume of fire against a black background

embracing the fiery madness of this here দুনিয়া

A person with a purpley-pink afro whose face is being pulled away from their head and body as they scream and cry set against a background of multicoloured squares

Intro to psych abolition

Stefanie Lyn Kaufman-Mthimkhulu and Thokoza Ndlondlo explore the theme of psychiatric abolition and Mad liberation

 A hand with silver stabiliser rings places a plaster onto their other hand

CripPleasurePower

An experimental documentary essay that explores the possibilities of aligning your pleasures with your values

 A completed mental health intake form with graphics of butterflies, dripping honey, hands holding each other, and font stylised like a video game. From top to bottom, the words read: "you are now entering a judgement-free zone. Do you need a break? You can be honest. I know you're scared. I know you're lying, we won't put you in an involuntary psychiatric hold. I'm so sorry. You are not crazy. We'll get through this together"

it’s ok, you’re ok

A sun streaked brown-duvet crumpled up on a white bed with two feet just peeking out at the bottom

An Open Letter To My Bed

Watercolour and textile art of a tree with roots underground and emerging with red and orange flowers growing outwards

Invisible Gifts

A short story by H K Grafton, with imagery by Gigi Lazy

A Juicy and Definitely Scientific Qualitative and Quantitative Comparison of Cure vs. Care

Poetry of care by Miriam Saperstein

 Abstract digital illustration with three people in the centre, one with a walking stick, one with blue hair and holding a white cat, one with a brown hat on, all wearing masks. They are enclosed in a bubble and around them are neon green and pink germ shapes

Compromised – Surviving In Isolation

Abstract digital illustration of a family keeping each other safe by Amaranthia Sepia

 Shadows of flowers and leaves with bright white sun streaks on a brown wall

Convalescence

Poetry and free writing exploration of convalescence by Saskia Horton

 Children's boxed toy in light blue box with transparent panel to see the toys in the middle adapted to represent disability injustice. Wording on the top and bottom of the box in orange letters reads: "Teaching kids about our world" and "disability doll kit".

Assisted Suicide / Assisted Joy

Dolly Sen’s disability justice art is aesthetically cool, but emotionally on fire

How do you feel?

A poem by Jolien Van Goethem

Second Lives

Musings on a second life by Chloe-Louise Adegoke and illustrations by Isha Joy

Merg

A short story by Ker Wallwork

 Abstract style colourful illustration of people in various body positions and different angles. Image has orange filter on it

Loss of reason

Peter Barham explores white supremacy’s dominating influence on madness.

 front cover of Sophie Chauhan's book Curious Affinities which has a mustard yellow cover and is sitting on top of a woven blanket. Image has yellow-green filter on it

Is pain always political?

An excerpt from Sophie Chauhan’s book Curious Affinities

 yellow and red illustration / collage with a person in a wheelchair reaching out towards the sun

Understanding Welfare State Violence

Calling some people a ‘burden’ provides a cover story for welfare state violence.

Skills & Wisdom of Disabled People

A conversation about the skills and wisdom that disabled people bring to surviving and thriving during the pandemic and beyond.

 blue background with yellow and white text that reads liberation through the lens of disability justice a panel sicsussion between The Triple Cripples, Mia Mingus, and Farzana Khan

Liberation Through the Lens of Disability Justice

Discussing disability justice and its relationship to racial justice, abolition and liberation.