It's April!

Here's what's up!

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NEUROMANCERS CIC
April 01, 2024

Hey there!

✨ Welcome to NEUROMANCERS – an abolitionist community organisation for and by neurodivergents. We're beyond excited to welcome you to our community.

At NEUROMANCERS, we're committed to radical lineages and inspirations that guide us as we promote healing and resistance outside of, and in active opposition, to psychiatry’s pathologisation of neurodivergent people.

Here's what you can look forward to in April:

🌠The Creative Collective🎨

The Creative Collective is a space for us to create collectively. Feel free to dabble in poetry, articles, visual art, audio… whatever your medium is! Indulge in your chosen art form and consider submitting to NEUROMANCERS Magazine for publication!

We will meet online on Tuesdays from 7-8:30pm UTC once monthly. (Time zone conversion here).

🖌️Join the Creative Collective monthly online sessions here.🖍️

  1. 16th April – Theme: Ode to a Sensory Experience 

  2. 21st May – Theme: Lived Wisdom Expression 

  3. 18th June – Theme: Embracing Our Uniqueness

  4. 16th July – Theme: Our Current Preoccupations 

  5. 20th August – Theme: Cycles of Change 

  6. 17th September – Theme: Collective Utopias 

1:1 Peer Support

NEUROMANCERS offers our mad and neurodivergent community members free, confidential, 1:1 support with our Peer Solidarity Practitioners.

Our Peer Solidarity Practitioners are trained through our abolitionist community mental health curriculum whilst also drawing on their own lived experiences. Our anti-carceral approach is in alignment with our value of UTOPIA: creating the world we wish to live in.

Click here for more information and to apply for support!

Don’t Wait! Last chance to sign up for Block One of Constellations!

All Constellations have free spaces for Black people and sliding-scale for others!

‘Constellations’ are our anti-carceral, sliding-scale Peer Solidarity groups. Peer Solidarity (coined by Aiyana Goodfellow) is an elevated form of peer support that combines political education with community healing. 

All our offerings are dedicated to and aimed at the mad, mentally ill, neurodivergent, and disabled (MMIND) community and led by facilitators with lived experience. 

All our groups are hosted on our NEUROVERSE Discord server, which is open 24/7. This means all our Constellations have their own Discord channel where you can chat with others from around the world who share your experiences.

You can also book our online sessions. Our online sessions are available to attend in ‘blocks’. Each block lasts six (6) weeks, “Block One” lasts from April to May, and includes Alt-Brained, Multi-Dimensional Minds, Neurodivergent Caregivers, and Neuroqueers. 

Constellations

🌟Alt-Brained

This Constellation offers a space for multiply-marginalised neurodivergent people (14+) to examine our struggles on personal and systemic levels as we discuss ways to apply our lived experiences towards building meaningful community.

Meetings will begin with an anecdote from the facilitators to set the tone of the space and then attendees will have the optional opportunity to share their own experiences. We’ll make connections to the greater systemic -isms and -obias that contribute to our challenges and support each other in coming up with ways to resist erasure, invalidation, and oppression through individual empowerment and collective organising.

💫Wednesdays at 6-8pm UTC from 10th April to 15th May 2024.

Book here!

🌟Multi-Dimensional Minds

The Multi-Dimensional Minds Constellation is designed to hold space for conversations among people who have experience with psychosis, altered consciousness, schizophrenia-spectrum symptoms, and other forms of beyond “ordered” thoughts. This constellation is for participants to explore our experiences in a non-judgemental place.

In our sessions we aim to address a variety of aspects of living with these experiences and create an environment of solidarity. We will set aside time at the end of each session to aid in the transition out of this community space.

💫Mondays at 8-10pm UTC from 8th April to 13th May 2024.

 Book here! 

🌟Neurodivergent Caregivers 

This is a Constellation for caregivers (16+) who also identify as neurodivergent. Caregivers can be parents or relatives, chosen family or partners, paid or unpaid – anyone involved in mutual care work. We recognise the diverse realities of caregiving, including its challenges, and its rewards so will discuss tips, strategies, and coping mechanisms to help each other navigate barriers and state systems of support. 

Neurodivergent Caregivers hopes to provide a community space where we can share the adventure of caregiving and to affirm that we are not alone in this work.

💫Thursdays at 8-10pm UTC from 11th April to 16th May 2024.

 Book here!

 

🌟Neuroqueers

Neuroqueers is a Constellation for queer neurodivergents to be gay, build community and do alleged crime...by crime we mean anti-colonial, anti-patriarchal gender expression, radical explorations of sexuality, and care-filled community building. The things that the state does not encourage or want us to do. Madness and neurodivergency has always been connected to queerness through shared criminalisation and pathologisation.

We are grounded in an anti-colonial understanding of queerness and neurodivergency and/or Madness. 

 💫Thursdays at 6pm-7.30pm UTC from 11th April to 16th May 2024.

Book here!

 Thanks for reading! We’ll update you next month with our announcements and events! In solidarity, NEUROMANCERS🌌