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Exploring the postures, patterns, and practices that support community-led health and healing.

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  • Disjointed body parts with flowers, leaves and herbs growing from them.
    Experiment life-affirming infrastructures, trans health

    Trans community healthcare – an introduction by Dani Singer

    Trans community healthcare – an introduction by Dani Singer “My gender is anything except girl,” 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…

  • Orangey-brown housing estate against a grey sky
    Experiment abolition, conflict, racial justice

    Community grieving in the endz

    Community grieving in the endz By Sara Bafo Grief runs deep in the endz, a familiar sensation that travels from home to home. One call and your life is altered; one walk outside, and everything changes; one moment.  I remember…

  • Multicoloured pill boxes and safety pins are spread over a flowery surface with hands holding and playing with the boxes and pins
    Experiment abolition, disability justice

    Beyond Pills: Mapping Community Care through Memorabilia

    Beyond Pills: Mapping Community Care through Memorabilia By Divya Mahatme Care is often framed as an unquestioned good—an act of love, responsibility, and protection. But what happens when care is dictated by systems designed to control? When the language of…

  • A hand with silver stabiliser rings places a plaster onto their other hand
    Experiment disability justice

    CripPleasurePower

    CripPleasurePower By ari sinn “CripPleasurePower” is an experimental documentary/essay that invites viewers into the intimate realm of the artist’s desires by exploring the possibilities of aligning your pleasures with your values. This experimental journey seeks to liberate individuals from conventional…

  • 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"
    Experiment abolition, disability justice

    it’s ok, you’re ok

    it’s ok, you’re ok By Jahia LaSangoma Artist’s Statement Jahia LaSangoma reimagines the mental health intake form outside of its history of retraumatization, stigma, and isolation for the artist.  Raised in the United States of America, in a state flush…

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

    An Open Letter To My Bed

    An Open Letter To My Bed By Abbie Goldberg Dear Bed,  Sometimes I fear I’ve grown to hate you. I’m sorry to start off so harshly, but really it’s you who should apologize. What right do you have to hold…

  • Watercolour and textile art of a tree with roots underground and emerging with red and orange flowers growing outwards
    Experiment disability justice, land justice

    Invisible Gifts

    Invisible Gifts Written by H K Grafton Imagery by Gigi Lazy Silver pushed absentmindedly into the earth and rubbed their fingers together, measuring the moisture content of the dark, fudgy soil without registering it consciously. There were still nagging worries…

  • 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.
    Experiment trans health

    Cereus Villa

    Cereus Villa By Amaryllis Ara Cereus Villa is a queer Jamaican space where its community members live, work and gather as they wade through the waves of life. One evening at Cereus Villa’s weekly movie night, Max, Vim,  Deen, and…

  • Experiment disability justice

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

    A Juicy and Definitely Scientific Qualitative and Quantitative Comparison of Cure vs. Care Words and imagery by Miriam Saperstein

  • Light and shadow shining against a blue-grey wall
    Experiment abolition, disability justice

    The Light Between the Shadows

    The Light Between the Shadows By Diana O’Shannon ‘The Light Between Shadows’ is a series of photos taken during a stay in a psychiatric unit. Alongside being sectioned for psychosis, the photos also document the stress of physical health tests…

  • 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
    Experiment disability justice, racial justice

    Compromised – Surviving In Isolation

    Compromised – Surviving In Isolation: The Black Mental Health Experience By Amaranthia Sepia “Compromised – Surviving In Isolation: The Black Mental Health Experience” reflects on my family and me, who are all disabled and immunocompromised – my Mom is a…

  • Shadows of flowers and leaves with bright white sun streaks on a brown wall
    Experiment disability justice

    Convalescence

    Convalescence By Saskia Horton

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