Farzana Khan
Community Organisers
Also working within:
Activists & Campaigners
Also working within:
Activists & Campaigners
She/Her
Based: London
Organisation:
Healing Justice London (Co-Director)
Farzana is the co-founder and Executive Co-Director of Healing Justice Ldn. Her practice works on building community health, repair and self-transformation rooted in disability justice, survivor work and trauma-informed practice working with communities of colour and other marginalised and underrepresented groups. Farzana has over 10 years of background in Youth and Community work particularly focused on arts-based education projects both in the UK and internationally. Farzana is the former creative and strategic director at Voices that Shake, bringing together young people, artists and campaigners to develop creative responses to social injustice. She ran this working at Platform London, a climate and social justice organisation working across arts, education, research and activism.
Farzana is a trustee of International Curatorial Forum and Stuart Hall Foundation. She also sits on the advisory board of Kids of Colour.
“The heart of climate justice has to be about how we dignify life - all kinds of life but especially those most marginalised and vulnerable. My work looks at climate justice through the lens of gender justice, disarming the chronic un-sustainability that all systems of oppression tie us to and unlearning the brutalisation of our bodies. Here I believe, transformative climate justice practice connects with disability justice. #DisabilityJustice is the effort to dismantle ableism, as Mia Mingus says: ableism is ‘notions of whose bodies are considered valuable, desirable and disposable’.”