Editorial Steward at In Practice with Healing Justice LDN

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 system 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).

Round one commissioning - wide interpretation of the themes

Selected examples:

Grief + joy befriend by AJ Venturini

Spacemaking as Sanctuary // Water Memory by Dionne Elizabeth

Fatteh Adas during genocide by Lama Obeid

Round two commissioning - three specific collections

Selected examples:

it’s ok, you’re ok by Jahia LaSangomia

An introduction to trans community healthcare by Dani Singer

Convalescence by Saskia Horton

COPYWRITING & BRAND

  • Recipe for Disaster

    I carry out research and co-write social media content for and with Venetia La Manna, a fair fashion campaigner and creator. Many of our videos centre on the idea of a ‘recipe for disaster; in which she makes a dish and with each ingredient, she also reveals a horrifying fact about a company or brand. Examples include Amazon, Coca Cola, Shein, Adidas and M&S. We also create a variety of other themed videos using Venetia’s alter ego Polly Esther, who hosts an annual Greenwashing Awards ceremony. All videos can be found on Venetia’s instagram.

  • Writer for JRF Emerging Futures programme content prototypes

    Emerging Futures // Joseph Rowntree Foundation

  • Lead Writer across all resources on the Future Parks Accelerator Resource Hub

    Future Parks Accelerator

  • Full website & app copy overhaul for fitness brand Body by Ciara

    Body by Ciara

  • Bio writer for chef Max La Manna. Used across website, socials and press

    Max La Manna

  • 12 articles for Future Feed, a platform to support Gen Z with their career choices

    Deutsche Telekoms