In October 2023, we began collaborating with Healing Justice London in support of their inaugural ‘Rehearsing Freedoms’ festival. As a first stage, we provided an ethics review of their proposed research with festival participants, offering questions that took into account the historic violence of research for marginalised communities; how their research process might also try to rehearse freedom from this history – its extraction, distortion, damage – by being as imaginative, eclectic, participatory and communal as possible within the given constraints; clarity as a disability justice issue, particularly in the participant-facing documents.