Land as Medicine for Health & Healing Justice
A conversation between:
Dawn Dublin
Maymana Arefin
Evie Muir
Zakia Sewell (chair)
19/10/2023
19:00 – 21:00
HJL Dream Space
Resource for London
352 Holloway Road
London
N7 6PA
Description
This conversation with Dawn Dublin, Evie Muir (Peaks of Colour), Maymana Arefin (Misery) and Zakia Sewell (chair) will look at land justice and community-led health. Panellists will share their practices of repairing, remembering and resistance rooted in land for Black and global majority peoples. This session will explore land justice, asking how we might work with land as medicine, and what futures we might create together.
Biographies
Evie Muir is a domestic abuse specialist, writer and founder of Peaks of Colour – a Peak District-based, nature-for-healing grassroots community group, by and for people of colour. Through their monthly hikes and regular walkshops (creative and holistic workshops in nature), they explore alternative routes to healing and justice for communities with racial and gendered trauma. Sitting at the intersections of racial, gendered and land justice, Evie’s work is situated in the decolonisation of the outdoors, and is involved with the ways nature can forge an abolitionist landscape outside of carceral feminist models. Her debut book, Radical Rest, explores Black and abolitionist feminist approaches to regenerative activism and activist burnout, and is due to be published by Elliott & Thompson in 2024.
Dawn Dublin is a cultural and social entrepreneur. Dawn is co-founder of the non-profit Black Butterfly. She works with communities to reimagine spaces and places.
Maymana Arefin is a community gardener, nature guide and activist based in London. She is an organiser with misery, a sober mental health collective that centres healing for QTIBPOC (queer, trans and intersex black people and people of colour). Maymana is currently co-facilitating Misery Medicines: Plant Magic, a free programme of monthly herbalism gatherings for BPOC.
Zakia Sewell is a broadcaster, writer and DJ from London. She produces and presents radio documentaries for platforms such as BBC Radio 3 and 4, the Tate and Boiler Room on music, history, arts and culture and is a host of the Breakfast Show on NTS Radio.
