ROOTWORK: Rallying Together for These Times ❤️‍🔥 A UK-wide tour of workshops with @nkem-ndefo.bsky.social @lumostransforms.bsky.social. In this moment of polycrises there is no structural change without deep inner-led change that uproots & attends to root causes. www.eventbrite.com/cc/rootwork-...

New publications ask how disabled people and allies can hold the state to account for welfare state killings #DeathsByWelfare #DWP www.disabilitynewsservice.com/new-publicat...

“Until oppression and inequality are addressed at their roots, these demonstrations will continue to haunt this country” Yewande Akintelu-Omoniyi, Our Voice Project Co-lead & founding member of ALLFIE’s Disabled Black Lives Matter www.disabilitynewsservice.com/disabled-peo... @johnpring.bsky.social

A new series of resources examines ways in which disabled people and allies can find ways to hold the state to account for the deaths of hundreds – and probably thousands – of claimants it has killed through welfare state violence. www.disabilitynewsservice.com/new-publicat...

Take a look at all of the articles, blogs, podcasts and more that we shared in our weekly bulletins in September. Including writing from @johnpring.bsky.social, @asylummagazine.bsky.social, @healingjusticeldn.bsky.social and many more! www.nsun.org.uk/nsuns-septem...

2 New Roles: we’re looking for a Work-related Suicide and Social Justice Researcher & an Editorial Steward! healingjusticeldn.org/our-team/ Is this you or someone you know? WRS&SJ Researcher: Apply by 19 August Editorial Steward: Submit an expression of interest by 20 August

2 New Roles: we’re looking for a Work-related Suicide and Social Justice Researcher & an Editorial Steward! healingjusticeldn.org/our-team/ Is this you or someone you know? WRS&SJ Researcher: Apply by 19 August Editorial Steward: Submit an expression of interest by 20 August

💚 I'm loving this event 💚 more people need to be aware of how oppressive our mental health services are before insisting others access these services. Therapy is hugely beneficial when it's in a genuinely safe space. Our mental health services are not universally safe due to its oppressive nature

We’re collecting testimonies on policing in schools across England. Students, parents, carers, teachers, youth workers & others — if you’ve got a perspective, we want to hear from you. WhatsApp, email, or online form 👇🏿. Pls share 🙏🏿 #PoliceInSchools www.ethnicity.ac.uk/school-policing/

Research Launch: What Palestine reveals about the politics & racism of British mental health care Online, July 22, 6-8:30pm BST Exploring how Palestinian solidarity is silenced, disciplined or managed in healing spaces. Led by @tarekyounis.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1441078146...

We'll be at @healingjusticeldn.bsky.social online event "The myth of anti-racism in British mental health care" on 22nd July. Make sure to get your ticket! 🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-myth-o...

Deadlines 23 June / 14 July

CALL FOR CREATIVES: ‘Horror & Healing’ film🔮🎥 Exploring the lived experiences of neurodivergent, mentally ill, disabled, & mad people within the mental health industrial complex through a fiction, horror-genre short film. Find out more & apply: healingjusticeldn.org/in-practice/...

That really hits you in the gut—such childlike simplicity, yet so deep. We're in hell, but it's made of pretty plastic.

DISABILITY JUSTICE / ASSISTANCE TO LIVE The Third Collection "Assisted dying is the most perfect illustration of a failed loveless society." We start by sharing Dolly Sen’s disruptive and rousing piece “Assisted Suicide / Assisted Joy”. Link below

Resources for trans liberation: "Our Trans Community Healthcare collection features six new pieces, including a beautiful and vivid narrative of what trans community healthcare can look like" healingjusticeldn.org/in-practice/... @healingjusticeldn.bsky.social

🗣️ Panelists: Mikey Erhardt, Social Security Policy Officer at @disrightsuk.bsky.social China Mills, Head of Research at @healingjusticeldn.bsky.social, leading the Death by Welfare project Sam Perlo-Freeman, Research Coordinator at @caatuk.bsky.social, expert on the UK arms trade

🚨 Speakers announced 🚨 In less than a week, we’re hosting a key discussion on the UK’s welfare cuts and the impact of war budgets. As living costs soar, the Government is slashing welfare & social care to fund military spending. 💸⚔️ Register today! www.medact.org/event/who-be...

TRANS COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE 🏳️‍⚧️ How do we practice trans community healthcare? New creative collection, starting with a narrative piece by Dani Singer of Safe Only CIC. Link below 👇🏾 “Liberatory trans healthcare is alive and flourishing, as it always has been, and always will be.”

DAMN Borders. End Barriers! Disability and Migration Justice Conference. 28th June 2025 London. Disability and Migration Network (DAMN) and DPAC Crip tank. @dis-ppl-protest.bsky.social #DAMNborders #DisabilityAndMigration www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/disability...

IT'S HERE: PSYCH ABOLITION IN PRACTICE ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 Our new collections of creative work are finally out!! How do we practice psych abolition? Read the intro piece from @stefkaufman.bsky.social & Thokoza Ndlondlo on "the Medicine of Madness" healingjusticeldn.org/in-practice/...

Maramiya🇵🇸🌿 A powerful painting by Aisha Noble of Palestinian plants in an Islamic medieval style healingjusticeldn.org/in-practice/... “For many Palestinians, cultivating crops like sage in defiance of the occupation is a form of resistance as powerful and significant as any other.“

The media’s engagement with people with lived experience of mental ill-health, trauma and distress can be unethical. To improve the process, we are conducting a 3-stage research project, starting with a short survey. Complete it to enter a £20 Love2Shop prize draw. www.nsun.org.uk/news/researc...

UPDATE*** We've now released some more in-person tickets (and released tickets to anyone who was on the waitlist)

Join us for What It Takes To Heal w/ the incredible @prentishemphill.bsky.social, Marai Larasi & Farzana Khan to reconnect us to the power of embodiment for collective transformation. Tuesday 18 March, 7PM GMT Rich Mix, London, E1 6LA & Online Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/what-it-ta...

We're really excited to be sharing 3x new collections of creative work very soon from some incredible movement & community artists, activists and cultural workers. We're sharing widely to make sure this gets out to a diverse range of people, so please help us spread the word! Coming March/April

The team at @medact.bsky.social are recruiting for a Communications Lead! The successful applicant will be responsible for delivering effective communications content across platforms. Paying £38,127.28, this full-time role closes for applications on 24 March. www.medact.org/2025/jobs/va...

The NSUN weekly bulletin arrived in member inboxes on Monday afternoon, full of news, free events and paid opportunities for individuals with lived experience of mental ill-health, distress or trauma. Scroll for a selection of its contents 🧵 www.nsun.org.uk/our-members/...

On March 19 @healingjusticeldn.bsky.social are holding an exploratory conversation to reconnect us to the power of embodiment for collective transformation. Join Prentis Hemphill, Marai Larasi and Farzana Khan online from 7-9pm. healingjusticeldn.org/methodology/...

Join us for What It Takes To Heal w/ the incredible @prentishemphill.bsky.social, Marai Larasi & Farzana Khan to reconnect us to the power of embodiment for collective transformation. Tuesday 18 March, 7PM GMT Rich Mix, London, E1 6LA & Online Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/what-it-ta...

#MadSky - we're making a starter pack of folks in the lived experience mental health space who have made the move over here, as well as organisations working in and around mental health justice. Please let us know if you'd like to be added! (go.bsky.app/DfXXbAM)

🚨IRR News this week⤵️ The racist roots of last Summer's riots cannot be normalised 🖊️Editorial 🗓️Calendar of Racism & Resistance 📰 IRR statement 📚Latest issue of Race & Class bit.ly/IRRNEWS07022...

🚨 BREAKING: Young patients stage demonstration outside a @priorygroup.bsky.social hospital, demanding an end to NHS outsourcing to private mental health providers. #MadYouthOrganise #MentalHealth #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek

Telling folks to just "plug in to community" rn is well-meaning and if you can do that, wonderful. But most people are not super connected to community for many reasons. So, if you don't have community rn that's ok, consider finding 2-5 ppl you can form a pod with. www.soiltjp.org/our-work/res...

📣 Defend the Right to Protest 📣 Hear from Chris Nineham, BenJamal, Khalid Abdalla and others at an emergency meeting following the Met's actions at last Saturday's Palestine protest. ⏰ Saturday 25 Jan, 2pm-4pm 📍 The Atrium, London E2 6EJ Tickets here 🔽 eventbrite.ca/e/free-pales...

We have scheduled an info Q&A session for applicants! Tuesday 21 Jan, 4-5pm GMT Sign up: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/movement-m...

🚨 New assembly point 🚨 📍12 noon, Whitehall, Sat 18 Jan The Met continues to deny us the right to protest at the BBC. We will now assemble in Whitehall and march towards the BBC. ‼️ Join us in massive numbers ‼️ #WeWillMarch

Researchers & Evaluators, this is for you 🚨🚨🚨 We are looking for a Research & Evaluation partner for our Movement Medicine programme Closes 30 January 2025. Please share if this fits someone you know! More info and apply here: healingjusticeldn.org/our-team/

But in my experience, there is always one essential ingredient: scrappy people who are willing to work backward from goals that seem impossibly ambitious at the start — Ayana Elizabeth Johnson

🚨 TONIGHT 🚨 🇵🇸 Rally for Palestine 🗣️ Demand our govt takes action to protect Gaza's health workers 📍 6pm, Parliament Sq #StopArmingIsrael #EndTheGenocide #FreeDrHussamAbuSafiya

⏰🚨Just under a month left to apply to join our team! More info ⤵️

🌒 Our trauma is political. Utilising art to touch vulnerable parts of ourselves, sing, express and dissect the politics behind why our distress is so policed and suppressed. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OHx...

As In Practice hits the 2 month mark 🎉🎉 16 new experimental pieces, each exploring disability justice, grief work, survivor work, politicised somatics, health justice & abolition. Engaging culture and creativity as a strategy towards liberation ✊🏾 InPracticeHJL.com

"We must access more of our humanity and our wholeness than the deeply atomized oppressor that could only enact those forms of violence because they’re so dismembered themselves. We must keep rehearsing and fighting in real time." — Panthea Lee inthesetimes.com/article/rehe...

Our Racial Justice Researcher @tarekyounis.bsky.social contributed to new report by @runnymedetrust.bsky.social on Islamophobia in the UK. He speaks to Islamophobia's implications for mental health, the ways MH structures are weaponised, & the necessity to recognise the politics of health & healing

Also: here's the full, terrible account of the adolescent that was grilled by the police for displaying Palestinian solidarity, by Nandini Naira Archer www.opendemocracy.net/en/counter-t...

8/ Grassroots orgs like CAGE, Maslaha and @healingjusticeldn.bsky.social provide vital support by recognising the political roots of marginalisation. They affirm dignity and resist dehumanisation--these are essential for real healing.

1/ Delighted to contribute to @runnymedetrust.bsky.social's report on Islamophobia. I wrote a chapter on mental health. It takes the political roots of Islamophobia (and its impact on Muslims) seriously, challenging simplistic narratives and emphasising systemic change. A 🧵 of key points: