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Exploring the postures, patterns, and practices that support community-led health and healing.
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FIELDNOTES #1: Speculating / Storyingย
FIELDNOTES #1: Speculating / Storyingย โI stand firm on this soil and tell storiesโฆ The only seed that needs regular watering is our imaginationโ – 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…
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Ondas
Ondas By Jasmine Kahlia I have an ongoing relationship between the two cities of London and Barcelona. This piece tells a story of healing and restoration after loss and focuses on finding family, and belonging, holding onto and rediscovering what’s…
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The trans capital of the North
The trans capital of the North Story by Vic Parsons, art by Kyle Alexander The year is 2055. The last people to receive a state-funded sex change are in their late forties, and saying that youโre trans in front of…
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We Are With You
We Are With You By Lydia Rose We Are With You is a mixed media collage that envisions abolitionist approaches to supporting people during a mental health crisis. It draws on social, emotional, somatic and spiritual care that have been life-saving for…
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embracing the fiery madness of this here เฆฆเงเฆจเฆฟเฆฏเฆผเฆพ
embracing the fiery madness of this here เฆฆเงเฆจเฆฟเฆฏเฆผเฆพ By orchi lohani Bio:orchi lohani (no pronouns/orchi/bhai) is an organizer, community worker & creative in chronic pain. raised in Dhaka, misplaced in socalled โeuโ. passionate about collective liberation, through connections & questions;…
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Intro to psych abolition
An Introduction to Psychiatric Abolition By Stefanie Lyn Kaufman-Mthimkhulu and Thokoza Ndlondlo Thokoza Ndlondlo: Before coming to the Western world, I had never heard the words โpsychiatric abolitionโ โ though my life has been one big practice of it. We…
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Trans community healthcare – an introduction by Dani Singer
Trans community healthcare – an introduction by Dani Singer โMy gender is anything except girl,โ they said, not without pride, as if punctuating the end of a lengthy interaction about prescriptions, healthcare-related forgery, and mixed feelings about Newham. There was…
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Community Capacity
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Changing public narratives.
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