Resources
Exploring the postures, patterns, and practices that support community-led health and healing.
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A concrete camp: embodying collective resistance for Palestine
A concrete camp: embodying collective resistance for Palestine Musings on a student encampment by Harvey Brown โAs community members, we are collectively responsible for each others’ welfare and safety. Our solidarity with Palestinians must be embodied as an act of…
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Moments of Wonder
Moments of Wonder A Black hiking group captures moments of wonder from nature As people of colour (POC) in the UK, what we know and how we engage with the natural world is shaped by a narrative which is not…
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Companions in pain – SWANA Healing
Companions in pain Connecting and healing with SWANA Healing By Rose Eskafi Commissioned by Micha Frazer Carroll Images from Elu and SWANA Healing In Farsi, the word โham-dardโ (ูู ุฏุฑุฏ) is a compound of the words ham (ูู ) meaning โtogetherโ and…
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Disenfranchised Grief
Disenfranchised Grief A dance film by Diana Amma-Gyankoma Abankwah This 2.5-min long original bilingual dance film tackles the themes of disenfranchised grief, family estrangement, mental illness and the aftermath of life as a suicide loss survivor. It is choreographed, produced…
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Care Under Capitalism: the work of health and sex
Care Under Capitalism : the work of health and sex “The economy of desire and the economy of health are structured by the same inhumane architecture of oppression that structures all markets. And even so they are enduringly human, with…
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the hearts that remain
the hearts that remain A short story by Salvy Snr By Salvy Snr Commissioned by Molly Lipson Editor’s note: this story contains themes of sexual violence so if you choose to read, please take care. โi will tell you what…
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Grief + joy befriend
Grief + Joy Befriend AJ Venturini explores how grief and joy are deeply interconnected in the process of personal transformation and collective liberation By AJ Venturini Commissioned by Molly Lipson Grief and Joy Befriend explores how grief and joy are…
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Loss of reason
Loss of reason Peter Barham explores white supremacy’s dominating influence on madness based on his book, Outrageous Reason: Madness & Race in Britain & Empire, 1780โ2020 By Peter Barham Commissioned by Micha Frazer-Carroll Quite recently I completed a book called…
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Intersectional alchemy
Intersectional alchemy A poem by Marai Larasi By Marai Larasi I was born of a Black Pearl.Somewhere in the East of London.As a Leo with Gemini Rising and Scorpio Moon diviningI arrived wilfully and disrespectfullyTo a hospital in the middle…
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Fatteh Adas during genocide
Fatteh Adas during genocide From the West Bank, Lama Obeid shares a lyrical recipe for the Palestinian dish Fatteh Adas against the backdrop of the genocide By Lama Obeid Commissioned by Molly Lipson Most days we feel helpless while trying…
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Is pain always political?
Is pain always political? “It is crucial that we devise ways of life that are liveable for people with disabilities, but we must also ask how different ways of life inflict debilitation, illness, pain and death onto others.” An excerpt…
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We keep each other safe
We keep each other safe Han Gunji‘s illustration on radical health and healing using the metaphor of mutually beneficial flowers By Han Gunji Commissioned by Micha Frazer-Carroll Artistโs note: I thought about radical health/healing/movement building in terms of care and community…
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.