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Nobody has lived the same life. We all have different experiences and view the world in our own way.
Sometimes this can separate us, but at other times it raises questions that bring us together, like what gives us value, what's important and what makes us happy?
In Matter, contributors with one unique shared experience explore these questions and invite readers to do the same.
Everyone featured in this magazine is a member, a volunteer or staff member at Headway East London, a Hackney-based charity supporting people affected by brain injury. For many of them their injury has turned their lives inside out – their sense of self changed irreversibly by something beyond their control. The diverse community at Headway East London navigates the challenges of that experience while nurturing new roles, ideas, and friendships into existence.
Matter was conceived as a collaborative project, a collective exercise in sharing decisions as a group while still allowing individuals to explore and discover what matters most to them through their submitted works.
Covering fiction, art, music, food, philosophy and more, Matter embraces what makes us different and what we share; the good, the bad and the ugly – and the true value of it all.
Nobody has lived the same life. We all have different experiences and view the world in our own way.
Sometimes this can separate us, but at other times it raises questions that bring us together, like what gives us value, what's important and what makes us happy?
In Matter, contributors with one unique shared experience explore these questions and invite readers to do the same.
Everyone featured in this magazine is a member, a volunteer or staff member at Headway East London, a Hackney-based charity supporting people affected by brain injury. For many of them their injury has turned their lives inside out – their sense of self changed irreversibly by something beyond their control. The diverse community at Headway East London navigates the challenges of that experience while nurturing new roles, ideas, and friendships into existence.
Matter was conceived as a collaborative project, a collective exercise in sharing decisions as a group while still allowing individuals to explore and discover what matters most to them through their submitted works.
Covering fiction, art, music, food, philosophy and more, Matter embraces what makes us different and what we share; the good, the bad and the ugly – and the true value of it all.