Humane Resources: how we survive changing the world

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In a world on fire, there’s no limit to how much is required of us, and how much we want to fight.

Humans and the groups we form have limitations, and when we cross boundaries of capacity - when we’ve given everything, without seeing the longed for results, we often fall into despair. The question of how to go on is one that everyone working to change the world is, at some point, faced with.

To delve into these questions from the perspectives of intersectional justice as well as political history, we welcome Hannah Proctor, author of Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat, Evie Muir, author Radical Rest: Notes on Burnout, Healing and Hopeful Futures and Joy Atkinson, Programme Coordinator for Tripod Training.

This is one for everyone who’s wondering how to continue creating change when the road ahead seems shut, and how to find joy in that making.

The event will be chaired by Jessica Gaitán Johannesson

Our speakers:

Hannah Proctor is the author of Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat (Verso, 2024). She holds a Wellcome Trust University Award at the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. Her first book, Psychologies in Revolution: Alexander Luria's 'Romantic Science' and Soviet Social History, was published in 2020 as part of the Palgrave Macmillan series Mental Health in Historical Perspective. She is a member of the editorial collective of Radical Philosophy, is a contributing editor at Parapraxis and is web/reviews editor of History of the Human Sciences.

Evie Muir (she/they) is the author of Radical Rest: Notes on Burnout, Healing and Hopeful Futures and founder of Peaks of Colour – a Peak District based nature-for-healing community group, by and for people of colour. Having worked in the Violence Against Women and Girls sector for over 10 years’, specialising in Black and queer survivors’ intersectional experiences of gendered and racialised trauma, Evie left the sector when they became burnt out, disenfranchised and disillusioned. Their work now sits on the intersections of gendered, racial and land justice, and seeks to nurture survivors’ joy, rest, hope and imagination as abolitionist praxis.

Joy Atkinson is a facilitator, educator & coach working at the intersection of personal & collective liberation. They serve as Programme Coordinator for Tripod, supporting social movements tackling the root causes of injustice in Scotland, and member of Urgent Bodies. They have dedicated their life as a politicised healer & organiser to revealing the ways oppression shapes us, with a particular focus on the body as a site of transformation. They are passionate about co-liberation, uprooting white supremacy & loving the Earth.

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