Resources
Exploring the postures, patterns, and practices that support community-led health and healing.
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Assisted Suicide / Assisted Joy
Assisted Suicide / Assisted Joy By Dolly Sen My name is Dolly Sen and I am a disabled artist who uses subversion, irreverence and sometimes humour to draw attention to critical issues in disability, societal norms and institutional failures. I’m…
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Allself
Allself By Hash Kankanamge, Softpunk This digital illustration explores the themes of trans liberation in healthcare; more specifically the questions around what community care can look like, and whether the spiritual components of transition and transition healthcare are interlinked or…
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Our Joy
Our Joy By Andi O-K My Story (Andi he/they) I was inspired by all of the beautiful trans, non binary and gender non conforming people around me. I am in awe of their strength in the darkest of days. I…
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aftercare/devotion
aftercare/devotion by Mercy Thokozane Minah /spa a digital oil painting that features two trans people who are newly lovers engaged in post-top-surgery aftercare. The premise being that gender-affirming healthcare invites opportunities for community care, interpersonal healing practices and that artwork…
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Politicised Somatics in Practice, Liberation, and Contradiction
A practice of politicised somatics is central to HJL’s Movement Medicine strategy. In this longread, Movement Medicine practitioner-in-training, dr dima mekdad, explores her lived experience navigating the liberation of Syria after 54 years of brutal dictatorship and nearly 14 years…
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What It Takes To Heal
In an age when connection is more critical than ever, we’re often in forms of connection that are surface level; scrolling, liking, watching. We often fall short of fulfilling our deeply human need to be known, understood, and feel empowered…
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Spacemaking as Sanctuary // Water Memory ????
Spacemaking as Sanctuary // Water Memory ???? An exploration in worldbuilding and remembering alternative infrastructures By Dionne Elizabeth As research and in response to the following prompts, I created a sound art piece, exploring how we are in relationship to…
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Making Space for Embodied Rage in our Healing
Humans are hard-wired to respond emotionally to perceived injustice. This response is anger, and the manifestation of anger is rage. This anger is human and has a function in regulating injustice, but we’ve been taught to intellectualise, contain, or constrain…
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Maramiya
Maramiya A painting by Aisha Noble In Palestine, almost every household will have a pot of dried sage in their cupboards. For thousands of years the plant has been used widely for its healing properties. Sage tea is regularly recommended…
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Second Lives
Second Lives By Chloe-Louise Adegoke Illustrations by Isha Joy This piece is best viewed on desktop full screen 1. If you are lucky, if perhaps you too are one in a million – you will get to live a second…
Strategies
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Community Capacity
Strengthening internal resilience and agency within communities.
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Movements
Resourcing and sustaining movements and supporting embodied leadership.
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Sensemaking & Storytelling
Changing public narratives.
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Infrastructure
Building infrastructure to model alternatives.