Our Highest Honour: Lifetime Fellowship of the unknown survivor- to everyone living with mental distress and illness who has lived through another year, we persist. Love Rita xxx ##RITBhonours

Over the past weeks we have witnessed the Government's increased anti-migration rhetoric and failure to denounce far-right violence. Migration is not a crime, and at NSUN, migrant justice will always be a mental health issue. www.nsun.org.uk/news/migrati...

DWP announces disability advisory panel - and it's the hot mess you'd expect it to be Being paid just over minimum wage and having to sign a gagging order to be on the DWP's disability advisory panel? Something's up, says @rachelcdailey.bsky.social www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

Yesterday, the Government rushed through the newly titled Universal Credit Bill – enacting their planned cuts to Universal Credit for new claimants from 2026/7. The Bill will now progress to the House of Lords, where it will face reduced scrutiny. We are devastated 🧵(1/4).

Yesterday NSUN published an email template for lobbying your MP around welfare cuts. Contribute to the campaign against the Government's proposed welfare cuts by using our guide and template letter to contact your MP about the cuts today. www.nsun.org.uk/news/lobby-y...

Got something to say about the Government's proposals to slash welfare support for Disabled people? Me too! Contribute to @nsunnews.bsky.social's consultation response here: forms.gle/wYMtnpWtrhbZ...

So pleased to see this piece out in the world and am touched to have been interviewed as part of it. It tenderly outlines the entanglements of police and policing in mental health services. Written by ‪@rebeccamarie.bsky.social‬ national.thelead.uk/p/theyre-jus...

Join us and award-winning disabled journalist, activist and author Rachel Charlton-Dailey on 22 May to discuss the Government’s plans to reshape the welfare system, and how this could impact people with lived experience of mental ill-health, distress and trauma. www.nsun.org.uk/news/social-...

My reflections on the joy and disappointment of giving "evidence" in parliament, what it means to have become an "expert", and how this big day out confirmed everything I already knew about knowledge, power, & co-production 👇

Today, and on all days, NSUN stands in solidarity with trans women and all other trans people. Our hearts are aching. We will continue to show up in the fight for trans rights, which shouldn't be a fight in the first place (1/2).

New explainer from me, via NSUN - on what the welfare proposals are, what they might mean for those living with mental ill-health, and what you can do about them 👇

"We as the mental health sector have a responsibility to call out this logic, rejecting the ways transness is constructed as a mental health problem and resisting psychological therapies being used as a new form of conversion therapy."

Trans rights are being attacked in the name of mental healthcare. On #TransDayofVisibility and beyond, NSUN is calling on the mental health sector to defend trans rights (1/2).

🚨 BREAKING: Young PIP claimants challenge Wes Streeting for backing cruel disability cuts. We’ve been denied care, stuck on waiting lists, and left to fight for survival in a rigged system. #StopTheCuts - this is life or death. We won’t let them get away with it ⬇️ #GuardianLive

A map of upcoming DPAC actions on Wednesday 26th March!

NSUN stands in solidarity with all who are affected by the DWP’s proposals on welfare reform. These changes are not in effect, there is no immediate change to people’s benefits. (1/5)

‼️ Just want to clarify that the mask requirement of course does not include those who are exempt❤️

Welfare reform proposals today have come with a new consultation, open until 30th June. However, accessible versions of documents are missing. 1/5

Solidarity, love, and care to all who are (also) troubled by today's announcements re: changes to welfare for Disabled people. A reminder that nothing is in effect, and will likely not be for some time.

📢 We’ve united with Scope against cuts to disability benefits. Together, we’ve published an open letter to the Chancellor urging the Government to safeguard them. Read the full letter on Scope’s website ⬇️ www.scope.org.uk/campaigns/op...

NSUN stands in solidarity with all who are affected by recent news regarding reforms to the welfare system. We are ready to oppose these changes, and are preparing for the launch of the full Green Paper, expected later this month (1/2).

Looking forward to this one in particular. Horrified by surveillance: touched by the power, ingenuity, and perseverance of Mad folk. 💞

Excited to be setting up Mad Campaigns Lab! 💫 A drop in space for Mad and Disability justice campaigners, through @nsunnews.bsky.social. Focus will be on skillsharing, solidarity, and strategy. Register interest & input below 👇

Last Wednesday, NSUN’s @courtneybuckler.bsky.social was in Parliament talking about mental health services. They made the case for a care first rather than cost first approach: we must invest in care because it is the right thing to do, not because it may drive productivity or boost the economy.

On 20 February, 4-5.30pm, our Senior Policy & Campaigns Manager, @courtneybuckler.bsky.social will be discussing NSUN's policy and campaigning work. Talking the Mental Health Bill, welfare reform, the Fraud, Error and Debt Bill and much more, register below. www.nsun.org.uk/news/current...

Clumsily transitioning over to Bluesky. I'm a psych survivor, researcher, and policy wonk hoping to re-build the world we had on the other-place: formerly/unfortunately/also there as x.com/cbuckler_ 💫