Rehearsal: Ancestral and Global Majority Technologies and Wisdom
A conversation between:
Dr. Annabel Sowemimo
Alnnoor Ladha
Pat McCabe
01/11/2023
19:00 – 21:00
Online
Description
This online session led by Dr Annabel Sowemimo, Alnoor Ladha and Pat McCabe, chaired by Farzana Khan, will connect anti-colonial international struggles and resistances towards reimagined and repaired paradigms of collective liberations. It will focus on how we re-route indigenous and ancestral technologies for expansive health on a people, planetary and cosmic plane.
This event will be BSL interpreted.
Biographies
Dr Annabel Sowemimo is a doctor, academic, activist, and writer. As well as being a Sexual and Reproductive Health Registrar in the NHS, Annabel is Co-director and founder of charity the Reproductive Justice Initiative (RJI, formerly Decolonising Contraception), a freelance journalist and author of Divided: Racism, Medicine and Why We Need to Decolonise Healthcare, published by the Wellcome Collection and Profile Books.
Pat McCabe (Weyakpa Najin Win, Woman Stands Shining) is a Diné (Navajo) mother, grandmother, activist, artist, writer, ceremonial leader and international speaker. She is a voice for global peace, and her paintings are created as tools for individual, earth and global healing. She draws upon the Indigenous sciences of Thriving Life to reframe questions about sustainability and balance, and she is devoted to supporting the next generations, Women’s Nation and Men’s Nation, in being functional members of the “Hoop of Life” and upholding the honor of being human.
Alnoor Ladha’s work focuses on the intersection of political organising, systems thinking, structural change, inner/outer mirroring and narrative work. He was the co-founder and Executive Director of The Rules (TR), a global network of activists, organizers, designers, coders, researchers, writers and others focused on changing the rules that create inequality, poverty and climate change. TR started in 2012 as a time-bound project and an experiment in temporary organisational design, exploring new ways of working, playing and making trouble together. Alnoor comes from a Sufi lineage and writes about the crossroads of politics and spirituality in troubled times. His work has been published in Al Jazeera, The Guardian, Truthout, Fast Company, Kosmos Journal, New Internationalist, and HuffPost, among others. He is a board member of Culture Hack Labs, a cooperatively run advisory for social movements. He is currently the Co-director of the Transition Resource Circle and co-author of Post Capitalist Philanthropy: Healing Wealth in the Time of Collapse.
Farzana Khan is a writer and social sculptor. Farzana is the co-founder and Executive Co-director of Healing Justice Ldn. Her practice works on building community health, repair and self-transformation rooted in disability justice, survivor work, structural justice and trauma-informed practice working with communities of colour and other marginalised and underrepresented peoples. Farzana has a background in youth and community work particularly focused on social justice organising and cultural work both in the UK and internationally. Farzana is the former creative and strategic director at Voices that Shake, bringing together young people, artists and campaigners to develop creative responses to social injustice. She ran this working at Platform London, a climate and social justice organisation working across arts, education, research and activism. Farzana is a trustee of International Curatorial Forum and Stuart Hall Foundation. She sits on the advisory board of Kids of Colour.
