Decolonisation in Precarity: Migration & Trans Healthcare
The following document is Nina’s report on the thoughts and processes leading to the event, what transpired on the day, and the learnings to carry forward accompanied by further exposition by Centric Lab on the topic of migration and trans healthcare as well as the opportunities to build on Nina’s work in the future.
From our Trans and Gender 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.
Justice cannot ever be top down or gate kept, therefore, we are prototyping methods that provide opportunities for people to enact their justice pathways without paternalistic intervention and without intellectual limitations. T
he role that Centric plays is one of resource and infrastructure, where we provide finance, solidarity and commerardary (as this work can be emotionally difficult and at times lonely), tools, and methods/practices.
The type and depth of resourcing and infrastructure is also decided by the grantee, hopefully creating an environment that support autonomy and Kinship.
To download a pdf copy of this please use this link or read via the slideshow viewer on this page.
Further Information
If you are a person that would like to organise healing opportunities for your community, please get in touch. Equally, if you are an organisation that would like to provide similar infrastructure, also get in touch.
Further Reading
Trans Migrant People of Colour Health Justice Report
Health Justice Grants are an opportunity to safely develop and pilot practices of healing that encourage the blend of imagination, practicality, and reference to traditional or alternative knowledges that may not be supported within larger funding systems.
From our Migrant Trans POC Justice programme we bring forward this piece of working on providing micro-grants designed to give autonomy and dignity to individuals and communities.
Health Justice Grants are an opportunity to safely develop and pilot practices of healing that encourage the blend of imagination, practicality, and reference to traditional or alternative knowledges that may not be supported within larger funding systems.
There is a need for complementary healing practices that are culturally literate and led directly by the people. Micro healing grants are small, unrestricted stipends that provide the recipient an opportunity to have space to think about their healing and enquire about healing strategies that are currently not available to them
To download a pdf copy of this please use this link or read via the slideshow viewer on this page.
Further Information
If you are a person that would like to organise healing opportunities for your community, please get in touch. Equally, if you are an organisation that would like to provide similar infrastructure, also get in touch.
Further Reading
Health Justice Grants: Trans Migrant People of Colour Health Justice Report
There is a need for complementary healing practices that are culturally literate and led directly by the people. Micro healing grants are small, unrestricted stipends that provide the recipient an opportunity to have space to think about their healing and enquire about healing strategies that are currently not available to them.
From our Migrant Trans POC Justice programme we bring forward this piece of working on providing micro-grants designed to give autonomy and dignity to individuals and communities.
This report will show how they have emerged as an innovative approach for Centric Lab to support holistic healing pathways. We are using these grants to start shaping new methods and imaginations around community health practices.
Nina Rivera, the project lead, initially planned to use this opportunity to conduct interviews with migrant trans people of colour (MTPOCs) that started to address serious research gaps in this community.
After some reflection, Nina decided that a useful practice of healing to explore for the community would be facilitating a small event titled, Healing Circle: Immigration and Trans Healthcare Decolonisation in Precarity. The focus of this grant was primarily on psychological healing, though physical and financial were incorporated.
To download a pdf copy of this please use this link or read via the slideshow viewer on this page.
Further Information
If you are a person that would like to organise healing opportunities for your community, please get in touch. Equally, if you are an organisation that would like to provide similar infrastructure, also get in touch.