Joy in Precarity: Rematriation as Healing

28 Oct

Decolonisation in Precarity: Migration and Trans Healthcare was the result of Centric Lab offering Nina Rivera, a long standing community organiser and advocate for the health justice of Trans racialised migrants and refugees, our first healing grant. Healing Grants are an opportunity to safely develop and pilot practices of healing that encourage the blend of imagination, practicality, and reference to traditional or alternative knowledges that may not be supported within larger funding systems.

Nina was offered the chance to build on the progress made with Decolonization in Precarity through another healing grant. The second healing grant opportunity, themed Joy in Precarity, built on the methods, practices, and learnings of Decolonisation in Precarity.

This collaborative report on the second use of a healing grant weaves Nina’s reflections on the methodology and impacts of both events with the testimonials of the participants and further observations from Centric Lab on the impact of this round of the grant.

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Further Information

If you are a person that would like to organise healing opportunities for your community, please get in touch. Equally, if you are an organisation that would like to provide similar infrastructure, also get in touch.

araceli@thecentriclab.com

Joy in Precarity: Rematriation as Healing

This collaborative report on the second use of a healing grant for Trans Migrant POC health justice weaves Nina’s reflections on the methodology and impacts over two events with the testimonials of the participants and further observations from Centric Lab on the impact of this round of the grant.

Joy in Precarity Video Zine

Continuing from last year's Decolonisation in Precarity event which tried to identify the inadequacies of trans healthcare in the UK from the point of view of migrants of colour, this year's events begin with the participants' cultures and countries of origin, exploring what remains of their ties to their roots and how reconnecting with these is synonymous with reconnecting with their authenticities, thereby creating less obvious yet hopefully more meaningful pathways to healing from duress.

The Science of Communal Singing for Healing and Wellbeing

This is a grounding document to support the use of science as a complementary way of understanding how singing in a group affects our mind, body and spirit. This document aims to showcase deeper relationality between practices, rather than a supremacy of one over the other. We will support this knowledge through introducing terms, describing various contexts, and presenting papers, articles, and other supporting work that those interested can continue to explore in more detail.

Decolonisation in Precarity: Migration & Trans Healthcare

The following document is Nina’s report on the thoughts and processes leading to the event, what transpired on the day, and the learnings to carry forward accompanied by further exposition by Centric Lab on the topic of migration and trans healthcare as well as the opportunities to build on Nina’s work in the future.

Trans Migrant People of Colour Health Justice Report

Health Justice Grants are an opportunity to safely develop and pilot practices of healing that encourage the blend of imagination, practicality, and reference to traditional or alternative knowledges that may not be supported within larger funding systems.

Trans Migrant People of Colour Micro Healing Grant Report

There is a need for complementary healing practices that are culturally literate and led directly by the people. Micro healing grants are small, unrestricted stipends that provide the recipient an opportunity to have space to think about their healing and enquire about healing strategies that are currently not available to them.

Josh Artus

Joy in Precarity: Rematriation as Healing

Further Reading

Joy in Precarity Video Zine