✨Hey Divergents!✨

Welcome to our final monthly newsletter of 2025, and what a year it has been.

At the beginning of this year, we re-launched NEUROMANCERS because we want a world where mental health care is safe, equitable, and consent-led. We want to build abolitionist futures which are healing, transformative, and life-affirming. The mainstream healthcare system fails our community by labelling neurodivergent+ people 'defective' and 'disordered'.

NEUROMANCERS seek to provide an alternative. Instead, we fall in love with divergence. Our traits are neither 'curses' nor 'superpowers'. We are simply people surviving a society that oppresses and excludes us in the best ways we know how.

It has been a lot of work and we are SO grateful for the support of each and everyone of you. We could not do this work without our community, and we’re excited for our NEUROMANCING networks to continue growing throughout 2026.

Keep reading to learn about all the mad, bad, and beautiful things we’ve been up to this year and find out what we’re scheming ‘n’ dreaming for next year, and more!

Highlights from 365 Days of NEUROMANCING

This year we…

• held NEUROMANCERS DAY – our first in person event, which had 60+ sign ups, 4 stalls, 9 guest speaker contributions, 3 sponsors, and 80% 5 star reviews (20% as 4 star!) 🤩

• launched our brand new membership community ✊🏾

• held 6x Death to the DSM workshops as part of our community research and development project where we collaborate on a peer-led zine exploring the varied experiences of the neurodivergent+ community 🤓🧠

• held 5x guest workshops for our community, on topics such as Decolonizing and Re-Indigenizing our Mind-Body-Spirit Connection through the Baobab Tree, Mad Liberation, and Non-Linear Poetry. (Don’t forget you can still access on-demand recordings of these workshops our digital membership platform!)

• launched a merch collab with FORT 😎

• welcomed 20+ volunteers over the year (we’re still looking for volunteers to join us in 2026!) 🤗

• spoke at Durham University 👌🏾

• hired 12+ short term freelancers 🤹🏾‍♀️

• launched our Peer Solidarity Certificate Program, the UK's first certificate program for politicised peer support, what we call Peer Solidarity. (There’s still time to apply!) 💥

🤎🦔It’s now definitely time for some gentle hibernation till January. 🦔🤎

👀What’s Cooking for 2026…👀

❤️‍🔥 Peer Solidarity Certificate Program 🧠 

Don’t forget that applications for our Peer Solidarity Certificate Program are open until the 4th January 2026.

The program is FREE for 18-25 year olds (payment plans/sliding scale options available for other applicants).

Application Deadline ⏳

11.59pm Sunday 4th January 2026

Next Cohort Begins 🗓️

February 2026

The program runs from February 2026 to December 2026 and the ENTIRE program is virtual/remote.

Find out more and apply by clicking the button below!

Returning to Solidarity - A support group for Black + Brown, LGBTQ, neurodivergent+ people! ❤️‍🩹✊🏾

6:30 PM - 8:30 PM (UK TIME) every Wednesday, for ten (10) weeks, from 28th January to the 1st April 2026.

In these challenging times, join NEUROMANCERS to unmask and hold our grief, distress, and shame as we cultivate a space for solidarity as Black + Brown, neurodivergent+, queer people.

As we collectively witness the rise of fascism and increasingly far right politics, we’re asking: how do we want to “show up” and “show solidarity” this year? This group will explore what showing up and having solidarity can be for our Black + Brown, neurodivergent+ and queer selves, communities, and kin.

We will be facilitating an online space which holds the burnout, internalised ableism, shame, and guilt that often gets between us and solidarity. In practicing Peer Solidarity, holding compassion, engaging somatic tools, and embodying abolitionist principles, we hope to explore what showing up with grace can be and mean for us all.

This space is exclusively and only available to people who are self-identified as Neurodivergent+; Black or Brown; AND LGBTQ+.

There are a very limited number of places, so book now to avoid missing out!

Announcing NEUROMANCERS Co-Working Drop Ins, IN-PERSON @ QUEERCIRCLE💻☕

Through our partnership with QUEERCIRCLE, we’re offering a FREE monthly co-working space for neurodivergent+ organisations and individuals in 2026.

If you are a neurodivergent+ organisation or individual who would like to join our access-affirming co-working afternoons, please email to express your interest.

QUEERCIRCLE is a warm, fully accessible safe space with art materials, tables and chairs, a large screen for presentations, and free Wi-Fi.

“Autonomous, abolitionist, and accessible mental health care is radical, is necessary, is you. We can't wait for you to join us.”

— Aiyana Goodfellow, founder and executive director of NEUROMANCERS

Not a member? Join for as little as £10 a month (£2.50 per week!) and gain access to our… 

• Community Platform: An international, digital community available 24/7 ready to welcome and offer you the help you need 🌍

• Exclusive Online Events: Including exclusive body-doubling and check-in sessions every single week AND monthly orientations 🗓️

• Library of Resources: HUNDREDS of resources for the neurodivergent+ community. We have articles, essays, workbooks, worksheets, podcasts, and more📚
  

• Workshops On-Demand: A collection of recorded workshops on-demand, tailored to the neurodivergent+ community. Future workshops are archived for members so you won’t miss a thing! 👀
  

• Massive Member-Only Discounts: Gain highly discounted access to public programming, including events, guest workshops, and care programs 🥳 
  

• Early Access: Be the first to hear about upcoming offerings and vote on what you'd like to see from us 🫶🏾 

Not only will you have access to our invaluable community, and all the perks, events, resources, and programs that come with it, but your membership helps sustain our work.

NEUROMANCERS is a small, volunteer-run non-profit which receives little to no funding, but your support enables us to continue for years to come. 

Sponsored memberships are also available ✊🏿

💖 Thank you so much for all your support, and we look forward to growing even more networks of autonomous, abolitionist, and accessible mental health care, by us and for us in 2026! 💖