Topic: Abolition

  • 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,…

    Light and shadow shining against a blue-grey wall
  • Experiment abolition, life-affirming infrastructures

    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 Artist’s note: I thought…

    Light purple background with tomato stem and red flower on left hand side. White stemmed plant on the right hand side with green leaves of different sizes and textures, and small yellow flowers. There are bees around both stems and underneath are the words, We keep each other safe & help each other grow. Image is bordered by two blue flowers and two white flowers in the corners, with swirly stems between them to create a rectangle around the image. Image has blue filter over it.
  • Insight abolition, surveillance, welfare

    Life-Affirming Research at HJL

    Research at HJL directly contributes to the organisation’s long-term strategy and vision by fostering personal, collective, and structural transformation. Our research is life-affirming, participatory, and collaborative, ensuring that it centres…

    person with their back turned looking at the deaths by welfare timeline exhibition
  • Insight abolition, racial justice

    People’s Medicine: Plant Medicine, Psychedelics & Healing Justice

    Psychedelics and plant medicine have vast potential to help us access health and healing. They have been utilised by global majority peoples for millennia. For people with experience of mental…

    dark blue background with a glowing illustrated flower. Reads People's medicine: plant medicine, psychadelics and healing justice with Akua Ofosuhene, Camille Barton, Ismail Lourido Ali, Farzana Khan, Darren Springer
  • Insight abolition, disability justice, welfare

    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…

    yellow and red illustration / collage with a person in a wheelchair reaching out towards the sun
  • Insight abolition, disability justice

    Liberation Through the Lens of Disability Justice

    This conversation brings together Mia Mingus and the Triple Cripples to discuss  disability justice and its relationship to liberation practice through their respective work. They discuss the intersections of disability…

    blue background with yellow and white text that reads liberation through the lens of disability justice a panel sicsussion between The Triple Cripples, Mia Mingus, and Farzana Khan