Resources
Exploring the postures, patterns, and practices that support community-led health and healing.
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In Practice – coming soon!
We’re very excited to launch our new editorial platform In Practice. We just need a little bit more time… In Practice is a new editorial platform by HJL that spotlights experimental pieces on health, healing and movement-building that wouldn’t get…
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Communications as a Site of Transformation
We see how, what, and why we tell stories as foundational practices for transformation. Communications at HJL is about more than increasing our reach. Many health and healing modalities are passed down to us through oral histories, family, cultural, and…
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Experiments in Imagination
“We are living in the imaginaries of those long gone before us, one day people will be living in the imaginaries we’ve created” – Angela Davis The work of imagination opens up possibilities to transform our society – to redesign…
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Understanding Welfare State Violence
State violence hides and thrives, harms and disarms, because we’re told it’s for ‘our own good’. The violent bureaucracy, assessments, waiting, being made to feel like you’re undeserving, being told the problem is you and not the system – wears…
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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…
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.