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  • blue and red digital artwork that reads deaths by welfare with the names of those killed as a result of the welfare state in the letters.
    Insight disability justice, welfare

    Creative Resistance to Welfare State Violence

    Creativity has been key to exposing and resisting the violence of the welfare state – as a political strategy to show the scale of harm, hold the government to account, and to name and remember those who have died. This…

  • brown paper-effect background with text reading Unlearning a Lot with an illustration of a black person wearing a gold top holding bushels of greens in both arms
    Insight movements, racial justice

    Unlearning Leadership

    Unlearning Leadership is a project by artist and psychologist Dr Dzifa Afonu, as they explore how models of leadership could be reconceptualised from a decolonial perspective. Dzifa examines the colonial and patriarchal views of what it means to be a good…

  • Insight disability justice

    Skills & Wisdom of Disabled People

    Disability Justice activists Lani Parker and Dzifa Afonu discuss the skills and wisdom that disabled people bring to surviving and thriving during the pandemic and beyond. They draw on their own experiences to share simple, helpful practices and tools. This podcast episode is adapted…

  • 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
    Insight politicised somatics

    Anchoring Resilience

    In this workshop, Nkem Ndefo draws from The Resilience Toolkit: a culturally responsive framework for reducing stress, addressing trauma, and building embodied resilience. She shares tools and practices that can support us to down regulate, especially during times of crisis and…

  • Insight trans health

    Spilling the T: Trans*(forming) Masculinities

    Spilling the T: Trans*(forming) Masculinities was a series of online and in-person sessions held by Raju Rage in the summer of 2022. Our aim was to create a space for trans* masculine people to unpack masculinities and forge their own, through collective…

  • blue background with a light blue nervous system illustration that reads somatic healing: theraputic touch for healing trauma with maira holzmann
    Insight politicised somatics

    Somatic Healing: Therapeutic Touch for Healing Trauma

    In this session, Maira Holzmann shares a basic understanding of trauma; how it embeds itself in the body; and how relationships, communities and systems contribute to a lack of safety in a person’s nervous system. Maira explores the power of…

  • blue and red gradient over an image of Lowkey that reads From personal pain to collective power, a discussion on creativity and empowerment
    Insight movements

    From Personal Pain to Collective Power

    Watch hip hop artist, academic & political campaigner Lowkey discuss his artistic practice, weaving together creativity, personal healing and movement building. In conversation with Sai Murray, he explores the power of music and creative expression to process trauma, critique injustice…

  • blue textured background with text that reads masculinity, mental health, and creativity a conversation with Tsoku Maela and Abbas Zahedi chaird by Sai Murray
    Insight racial justice

    Masculinity, Mental Health & Creativity

    Artists Tsoku Maela and Abbas Zahedi share their creative journeys and practices, exploring the intersections of race, masculinity and mental health. Their discussion is chaired by writer and artist Sai Murray. This video was adapted from an event we ran…

  • green and yellow graphic that reads herbal care for our times herbs for resilience with Rabiah Mali
    Insight land justice, life-affirming infrastructures

    Herbal Care for Our Times

    In this workshop, Rabiah Mali introduces powerful plant allies for physical, mental and emotional challenges that may have arisen or been exacerbated by the pandemic. We learn safe ways to forage and use plants in easy and effective homemade recipes.…

  • pink and yellow graphic that reads lived-experience mental health in times of covid-19 with China Mills and Akiki Hart
    Insight disability justice, life-affirming infrastructures

    Lived Experience Mental Health in Times of Covid-19

    Akiko Hart, CEO of the National Survivor User Network (NSUN), shares user-led mental health initiatives and key learnings from the pandemic period in conversation with researcher China Mills. In response to Covid-19, NSUN launched a fund for user-led groups, supporting diverse and…

  • pink and yellow graphic that reads the healing alchemy of the five tastees with michelle adams with a picture of michelle, a black woman with an orange head scarf
    Insight life-affirming infrastructures

    The Healing Alchemy of Five Tastes

    In this workshop, Michelle Adams teaches us about the healing benefits of the five tastes according to five-element philosophy. In exploring the five tastes, we can understand how to use them to benefit the integrity of our organ and emotion…

  • dark blue background with a light blue illustration of a nervous system and white text that reads somatic experiencing and sexual trauma recovery in collaboration with the breathe network
    Insight politicised somatics

    Somatic Experiencing & Sexual Trauma Recovery

    This workshop, held in collaboration with The Breathe Network, explores how trauma lands in the body and how we can use somatic experiencing to support survivors’ healing. Molly Boeder Harris and Maira Holzmann introduce the concepts of somatic experiencing (SE) and…

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