Healing Justice LDN (HJL) is an organisation dedicated to building community-led healthcare and healing. In October 2024, HJL launched In Practice, a space to dream up, imagine and rehearse alternatives that render our current systems of healthcare redundant.

As the inaugural Editorial Steward, I helped envision and build the platform from scratch. I then commissioned creative works that directly engaged with and responded to key themes in HJLs work, including disability justice, grief work, survivor work, politicised somatics, community-led research, abolition, and themes in and around these. Work could take the form of writing, art, audio, video, and multi-media projects.

I commissioned creative works in two rounds: the first was a selection of individual pieces that spoke to any of the themes, with an open and flexible approach. Then, I launched three specific collections around particular themes and commissioned work relating to each: psychiatric abolition and Mad liberation, trans community healthcare, and disability justice.

All the work is available to browse and enjoy on the In Practice site (scroll down to the Archive section for the first round of commissioned work).

Some of the work has been referenced in JMB’s report The Limits of Abolition in the Charity Sector by Dr. Ariel Breaux Torres.