#dignity

A workshop led by:

Alex Augustin
Sai Murray

1/11/2023

19:00 – 21:00

HJL Dream Space
Resource for London
352 Holloway Road
London
N7 6PA

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Description

This workshop constitutes part two of Reimagining Masculinities. Led by Alex Augustin and Sai Murray, it will explore the practice of combat/self defence training in a trauma-informed way as a rehearsal of true “protection”. It will approach this vision of protection as consent-led, accessible, embodied, non-patriarchal and collective. Participants will think about how we can enact and build liberatory community and self-protection strategies and narratives as a response to the range of violences of patriarchal culture – including transphobic and gendered violence, rape culture and the disconnection of people who identify with masculinity from themselves, their bodies and their feelings.

This session is open to all over the age of 18, but will prioritise discussions of masculinity, please only register if you are comfortable with this.

If you require additional access measures to enable your participation, including BSL interpretation please email info@healingjusticeldn.org. Inline with our commitment to disability justice, we will try to accommodate as much as possible.

Biography

Alex Augustin (he/him) is a member of the core team at Healing Justice Ldn, where he works on HJL’s comms and the Reimagining Masculinities programme. Through his experiences of interdependence and struggle growing up in Brent, NW London, he has always had an awareness of injustice and inequity. Alex writes and has held discussions about the psychological and emotional impact of structural harm in ‘the ends’. He has trained in Muay Thai for a number of years and has a relationship to somatics through learning in community with politicised somatics practitioners.

Sai Murray is a writer, poet, performance and graphic artist. His art addresses issues of self, societal and ecological repair. He is a founding artistic director of the youth arts educational initiative Voices that Shake!; founder of Liquorice Fish artist/activist promotions; an organising member of PARCOE (the Pan-Afrikan Reparations Coalition in Europe) and a resident poet at Numbi Arts. His first poetry collection, Ad-liberation, and his novella, are published by Peepal Tree Press. @saimurai