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Why we need grief in our social movements by @CamilleSaparaBarton - sent to our mailing list!
An edited excerpt from their book ’Tending Grief: Embodied Rituals for Holding Our Sorrow and Growing Cultures of Care in Community’, Cami shares reflections on loss, rituals and the emotional elephant in the room in organising spaces.
“...During this collage of crisis many social movements have been organising, responding to emergencies, and trying to sustain life. I am grateful and heartened by this solidarity and collective action. However, I sense that many of these movements of courageous beings are not sustainable. There is no time to feel.”
ICYMI: HJL’s new platform ➰In Practice➰ is coming soon, created to spotlight radical movement articles, creative writing, art & more. In the lead up to the launch, pieces will be delivered to your inbox every couple of weeks 📩
We hope to offer ways to expand, build with, and pluralise our interpretations and narratives of our health & healing under the current systems, contexts and conditions. Sharing experimental pieces on health, healing and movement-building that wouldn’t get published elsewhere. Reply to the emails to tell us what you think!
What are some good grief resources? Share in the comments
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Is pain always political? by Sophie Chauhan (@fugly_gaybo) - an edited excerpt from her book, Curious Affinities.
“...Here is where another question needs to be posed: what role do broken systems play in breaking bodies? Yes, 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.”
And a new offering... 🤲🏾
We’re relaunching our newsletter (link in bio!) alongside a new editorial platform, ➰In Practice➰ (coming soon)
Both will feature articles, creative writing, art and more from movement leaders, organisers, writers, artists and archivists.
In this first piece, Sophie Chauhan immerses us in the complex terrain of long covid and pain, asking how we might politicise chronic illness.
We hope that these creative pieces (delivered to your inbox every couple of weeks) will be ways to expand, build with, and pluralise our interpretations and narratives of our health and healing under the current systems, contexts and conditions.
We want to spotlight experimental pieces on health, healing and movement-building that wouldn’t get published elsewhere. Please reply to the email and let us know how they make you feel!
As we build towards community-centered health care systems that respond to context and conditions and support our safety, belonging and dignity - does this question/piece remind you of any experiences, learnings or other work? Could you tell a different story relating to this, and what would it be called?
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Moments from HJL Movement Medicine politicised somatics 6x day training with @StaciKHaines & Erika Lyla
What capacities and competencies does it require for a community of trained practitioners to deliver embodied transformation support to movements throughout the UK, within the next 10 years?
We as organisers, liberation workers, community leaders, healers, abolitionists need to be able to move together — our futures & freedoms are deeply intertwined. Liberation requires transformation — not just of our society’s policies, norms, and practices — but of ourselves and our movements.
We face the escalating, enduring threats of violence, austerity, rising facism, imperialism, climate catastrophe & more — leaving us under-resourced & in cycles of burnout & conflict. This is why we come together with the intention of sustainable, politically-literate support systems to enable embodied leadership, trauma healing, collective alignment & action.
We want to embed politicised somatics sustainably (with long term relational infrastructure) within abolitionist movements for social and climate justice, which will enable us to move and mobilise together long term, and under pressure, towards collective liberation.
Deep gratitude to @StaciKHaines & Erika Lyla for holding us. Gratitude to all these humans for their presence, bravery, generosity, rigour, grief, rage - all of it. Gratitude to all of us for being here in our collective fight, abundance, aliveness/vibes, connection, rehearsal ❤️🤲🏾
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Thursday 30 May, 7pm
Thursday 27 June, 7pm
Held online via Zoom
Email info@healingjusticeldn.org for the eventbrite link
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Dates: 23 May & 6 June (London E2, outdoors) - 30 May & 13 June (London E1, indoors)
Time: 6:30 - 8:30 PM
Email info@healingjusticeldn.org for registration, questions, and accessibility needs
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Sessions are in person. Please arrive on time in order to maintain the integrity and containment of the therapeutic space. Due to the sensitive nature of these sessions and safety protocols involving access codes, doors will close at 6:45.
Art therapy is a creative therapeutic process in which space is intentionally created to empower self expression, reflect on emotions and experiences, and advocate for accessible support and care through art-making and interpersonal interaction.
Palestinian art psychotherapist and counsellor @otheroah will be facilitating this group in response to the collective struggle for liberation. We will engage in communal art-making, embodiment exercises, and creative healing practices to foster connection, sustainable movement building, and honour existence as resistance.
Art materials, snacks, and tea are provided. We welcome you to bring your own art materials!
Credit for images and text: Roah @otheroah
Photo credit: Palestinian fishermen of Galilee gather on the shores of the Tiberias Sea, 1898–1946 © PalestinePhotoProject.org
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