(Rehearsing) All Care for All People – A People’s Health Assembly
A workshop led by:
Ben Eder
Kavian Kulasabanathan
Dr Stephanie Davis
Farzana Khan
10/12/2023
12:30 – 17:00
HJL Dream Space
352 Holloway Road
London
N7 6PA
Description
This is a visioning and action session, which will support participants to build towards radical abolitionist public health. Taking place on the last day of the festival, this people’s gathering and assembly space invites us to collectively imagine what health for us all, as determined by us, looks like. The session will ground us back into the intentions of the overall festival, and will ask the questions:
– What is health, and what are the roots health grows from?
– How does the state shape our health? What role might the state play in accessing health and healing – if any?
– What might our visions of health look and feel like?
– How can we rehearse and practise those visions right now?
This workshop will encourage us to think, feel, draw, write and play through these questions, building with all that has come before and inviting in new offerings. The space will be held facilitated by Kavian Kulasabanathan, Ben Eder, Dr Stephanie Davis, and Farzana Khan.
This event will be BSL interpreted.
Biography
Ben Eder (he/him) is a movement organiser at Medact, a public health campaigning organisation, supporting the health community to come together and organise for health justice. He is a junior doctor, currently in his first year of training to be a GP.
Kavian is an Eela-Tamil physician focused on state violence as a determinant of poor health. From this starting point, he is interested in uses of the collective imagination, community-led and -owned models of care and place-making in journeying toward abolitionist, collectively liberated futures. He organises with Race & Health and the People’s Health Movement.
They have facilitated and organised together for 6 years, bonded by a love of Octavia Butler, Emergent Strategy and spending time in nature together, making tasty food in nature, and swimming in cold water.
Dr Stephanie Davis is Health Justice Researcher at Healing Justice London. Stephanie is a scholar-activist with expertise in critical and community psychology; a focus on the intersections of race, gender, sexuality and Black feminist, anti-/de-colonial and queer theory/praxis; and a commitment to social transformation. Stephaniehas held lectureships at Nottingham Trent University, University of Brighton and University of East London. She has previously worked in a community development and activist capacity on issues of sexual health, gender and sexual diversity, and police harassment with young people and Black and brown communities. In 2013, she co-founded Rainbow Noir, a social support and organising space for queer, trans, and intersex people of colour (QTIPOC) in Manchester. She is excited by the possibilities of the margins, the borderlands and ancestral and spiritual connection. She is the author of ‘Queer and Trans People of Colour: Possibilities for Intersectional Richness’ (Routledge, 2023).
