From our Trans and Gender Non-Binary Health Justice Programme, we bring forward the work of Nina Rivera, who is an organiser, healer, and advocate of Trans Women's Migrant Rights. She is the recipient of our first Healing grant, where she brought together Trans Migrant Women into a space of Kinship and healing.

This working board is for people who are not “professionals” within the legal, policy, or advocacy space (NGOs) but for community-led organisers looking to develop action plans and theory of change models. The MIRO board has a series of instructions after an introduction section that you can refer to at different times.

This project brought together people with knowledges across a variety of policy, organising in healthcare and the criminal justice system, as well as environmental and climate justice.

On 11th October 2023, 14 people, ranging from the fields of medicine, policy, law, abolition, science, data science, economics, and art gathered to declare our right to access AIR.

We are very proud and excited to launch this living wisdoms ecosystem. We are coining this term as Knowledges are alive, they evolve through interaction with culture, events, and time. This term also highlights that Indigenous Knowledges are still relevant and will always keep evolving to support our survival and healing.

While many would argue that there is not one Los Angeles but multiple LAs, what is less known is that there are multiple Indigenous LAs whose histories are layered into the fabric of the city.

There are disproportionately high rates of psychological and psychological distress and health disparities among Indigenous Peoples. That is, regardless of their geographical location or sociopolitical situation, health indicators are always poorer for Indigenous Peoples than for non Indigenous ones.

These two essays reflect on non-western healing epistemologies, both as an opportunity for healing and as a response to the harms of the western medical industrial complex.

Trauma also creates systemic biological and cellular changes. For example, it can change our gut bacteria environment, which has implications for obesity. In cases of acute trauma, some can experience PTSD, which creates neurobiological abnormalities which alters the function of various biological systems, this too has implications for obesity.

Indigenous Peoples are from all over the world and cover various and distinct cultures, languages, practices and knowledges. It is not a race nor is it a monolith.

This audio report discusses three epidemiological transitions and how our modern environments are not suited to our biological architecture. New perspectives such as the ‘ancestral susceptibility hypothesis’ suggests that there is a mismatch between the ancestral environments our bodies have adapted to (at a genetic level) over millennia.

A stressor is defined as a novel threatening environmental agent that alters the baseline human biological system in either of two ways: bringing the system to an unstable biological state, or slowing down the system’s internal response so that it cannot reach equilibrium.