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Search results for: health 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.

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.

 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.

 Report cover. Blue textured background with faint image of a woman wearing a hijab. Cover is designed to look like a folder with multiple pages and tabs in it. Bold black text with a red streak of ink circling around it. Text reads: 'The Violence of Liberal Racism. What Palestine Reveals About British Mental Health Care. An original research report by Dr. Tarek Younis.

The Violence of Liberal Racism: What Palestine Reveals About British Mental Health Care

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.

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The trans capital of the North

A short story about the trans boating community by Vic Parsons with art by Kyle Alexander

 Collage with light blue scrunched-paper effect background, featuring different sized darker blue and turquoise triangles. Illustration of a pink lotus flower in bloom and two closed buds, and their green leaves. Handwritten poem in small squares at the top reads: We are with you, {We, who honour your life} We breathe with you as you move through strife. We are with you, {We, who witness your distress} We offer comfort with arms outstretched. We are with you, {We, who speak to the Earth} We seek grounding in the nature she births. We are with you, {We, who hear your cries} We believe you and stand by your side. We are with you, {We, your ancestors above} We are with you always, forever in love.

We Are With You

Handmade collage exploring community mental health care by Lydia Rose

 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

 Disjointed body parts with flowers, leaves and herbs growing from them.

Trans community healthcare – an introduction by Dani Singer

An introduction to trans community healthcare by Dani Singer

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CripPleasurePower

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

 The night is a blueish-purple hue. A bird’s eye view of the Cereus Villa’s courtyard shows the title “Cereus Villa” in circular text surrounding the courtyard’s grassy centre. There is a lantern lit community altar which is home to a bowl of water, a machete, white flowers, coffee, red envelopes, and offerings of ground provision.

Cereus Villa

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

Poetry of care by Miriam Saperstein

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The Light Between the Shadows

A photo series of light and shadows taken during Dianna O’Shannon’s stay in a psychiatric unit

 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

 Digital illustration with bright blue background decorated with slightly transparent, lighter blue stars and bubbled. Around the border starting from the top working clockwise words read: "There is no one / I am me I am you / without the other / I am body I am mind." In the centre are two bright yellow bodies without visible heads embracing each other, legs wrapped around one another. There i a gleaming sun with rays of light shining out in the space between where their heads would be.

Allself

Digital illustration by Hash Kankanamge/Softpunk exploring whether the spiritual components of transition healthcare are interlinked

Spacemaking as Sanctuary // Water Memory 🌊

An exploration in worldbuilding and remembering alternative infrastructures

Second Lives

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

Merg

A short story by Ker Wallwork

Companions in pain – SWANA Healing

Companions in pain – connecting and healing with SWANA Healing

Care Under Capitalism: the work of health and sex

Care Under Capitalism — the work of health and sex by S.N.H.

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Loss of reason

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

 Light purple background with tomato stem and red flower on left hand side. White stemmed plant on the right hand side with green leaves of different sizes and textures, and small yellow flowers. There are bees around both stems and underneath are the words, We keep each other safe & help each other grow. Image is bordered by two blue flowers and two white flowers in the corners, with swirly stems between them to create a rectangle around the image. Image has blue filter over it.

We keep each other safe

Han Gunji’s illustration on radical health and healing using the metaphor of mutually beneficial flowers

 green and yellow graphic that reads Anchoring Resilience with Nkem Ndefo and a small picture of Nkem, a Black femme person with braids and a maroon shirt

Anchoring Resilience

A workshop sharing frameworks and practices to reduce stress, address trauma and build embodied resilience.