Topic: Life-Affirming Infrastructures

  • Experiment life-affirming infrastructures, trans health

    Trans community healthcare – an introduction by Dani Singer

    Trans community healthcare – an introduction by Dani Singer “My gender is anything except girl,” they said, not without pride, as if punctuating the end of a lengthy interaction about…

    Disjointed body parts with flowers, leaves and herbs growing from them.
  • Experiment life-affirming infrastructures, politicised somatics

    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…

  • Experiment life-affirming infrastructures, politicised somatics

    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 “ham-dard” (همدرد) is…

  • 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 life-affirming infrastructures, movements

    Rehearsing Freedoms Festival

    In this time of cumulative crises, our communities are facing harms and forms of breakdown that are political in nature but often not addressed this way. How can we dismantle…

    a brown woman with her eyes closed signing into a microphone in front of a projected graphic that reads Rehearsing Freedoms slightly obscured
  • Insight life-affirming infrastructures

    Life-affirming Infrastructures

    We spend our lives navigating oppressive infrastructures like welfare and hostile urban space. How do we build systems that are conducive to life, dignity, safety & joy? In this public…

    colourful illustration of people walking across a rope bridge in a dense forest with white texts on a pink background that reads life-affirming infrastructures