Our lineage

HJL began as a collaboration by women of colour living in London. It builds on years of youth, community and survivor work, aiming to restore agency to communities to imagine and organise towards liberation. We continue to lead from communities that are marginalised, to shape and determine our own health and well-being provisions and build radical alternative public health approaches.

Our practices have grown out of lived experiences and non-eurocentric traditions, liberation movements, and are grounded in decades of community-based health, trauma and healing work. 

We are currently in the process of developing a living lineage archive to support us to tell the story of HJL’s work and its interdependencies.