art as an act of healing
the weirder, the better
instagram.comFrom Brave New Films, Healing Trauma: Beyond Gangs & Prisons follows the transformative stories of former gang members as they share their childhood mental and physical abuse, growing up in the gang lifestyle, and the hope they have found at Homeboy Industries, the largest gang intervention, rehabilitation and re-entry program in the world. Hig... See more
Homeboy Industries • Healing Trauma: Beyond Gangs & Prisons
Our prisons are filled with people who entered as children or very young adults, who have spent their formative years learning to navigate a world that exists nowhere outside these walls
Cruel Paradox of Freedom
Did anyone check out 'the quilters' documentary on Netflix?
Was an awesome exploration of the healing powers of creation within textiles on Vulnerable Population.
#ClimateAction #textilewaste #sustainability #climatejustice #CircularEconomy #thequilters #socialinequity #prisonreform
instagram.comThe Visiting Room
visitingroomproject.org
We here to become human again, to put on nice clothes and dance around and enjoy the things that is not in our reality.
Sean Johnson, Sing Sing (2024)
art is a tool that can help release us from our numbness and provide for catharsis in areas where we have for too long been wrong-headedly brave.
Alain De Botton • The School of Life: An Emotional Education
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