In Practice is a space to dream up, imagine and rehearse alternatives that render our current system redundant. The following collections contain curated creative responses to three key themes that are all interwoven with each other. We encourage you to explore the collections and weave between them, keeping an open mind and a generous heart.
Carceral psychiatry is the way in which psychiatric and mental health institutions rely on punishment and imprisonment of those deemed mentally ill. We understand Madness to be, in large part, a result of socio-economic conditions, including structural racism, poverty, transphobia and other forms of oppression.
With a world intent on strategically trying to eliminate trans people altogether, community healthcare becomes even more important. What does it look and feel like for trans people to re-take control of their bodies? What material conditions support liberated bodies, and how do we create them?
Disability justice refocuses disability from a legal, policy and rights framework to one of intersectional, structural liberation. In this collection you’ll find creative explorations of what exactly “assistance to live” means, looks and feels like.
Illustrations by Eje Diedjomahor
WHITE WALLS (May – Oct 2025). In the context of our suffering and projection of ‘monstrosity’ onto marginalised people, WHITE WALLS is a creative experiment to ask how we can turn the lens onto society: (re)identifying society as a site of horror, and exploring how we might heal from this. Stewarded by Aiyana Goodfellow.
Resources
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FIELDNOTES #1: Speculating / Storying
FIELDNOTES #1: Speculating / Storying “I stand firm on this soil and tell stories… The only seed that needs regular watering is our imagination” – Diriye Osman Speculative Storytellers is a self-directed stewardship held by nature writer and founder of Peaks…
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In Practice: Horror & Healing
IN PRACTICE What is the Project? Led by our current Editorial Steward Aiyana Goodfellow, our current In Practice experiment (May – October 2025) explores the lived experiences of neurodivergent, mentally ill, disabled, and mad people within the mental health industrial…
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Collection 1 – Psych Abolition
An introduction to psych abolition Stefanie Lyn Kaufman-Mthimkhulu and Thokoza Ndlondlo explain and explore what psychiatric abolition means and what it means to collectively look after each other in terms of our mental health without relying on the violence of…
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Collection 2 – Trans Liberation
An introduction to trans community healthcare Dani Singer from the organisation SafeOnly shares a narrative, heartfelt explanation of what community trans healthcare can look like Cereus Villa In this comic strip by Amaryllis Ara, we glean an insight into a…
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Collection 3 – Disability Justice
Convalescence Saskia Horton interlaces poetry, free writing and listicle styles to create a deep exploration of disability, healing, health and community Assisted Suicide / Assisted Joy In Dolly Sen’s “aesthetically cool, but emotionally on fire” art, she uses subversion, irreverence…
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Somos fuego: Amulets from the Locus* project
Somos fuego: Amulets from the Locus* project By Nada Colectivo By Ana “My amulet represents a tarot card featuring an eight-pointed star at its centre, similar to the asterisk in the Locus* logo, surrounded by small dots and lines that…
