📢 Calling all NYC youth ages 14-19! We want to hear from you about what you want to see in our mental health & peer support youth programs. Join us for a virtual listening circle: 📅 Wednesday, May 13th 6-7:30pm EST - On zoom $50 stipend Limited seats! Register at bit.ly/letscircle-nyc by May 7 🌿

📢 Calling all NYC youth ages 14-19! We want to hear from you about what you want to see in our mental health & peer support youth programs. Join us for a virtual listening circle: 📅 Wednesday, May 13th 6-7:30pm EST - On zoom $50 stipend Limited seats! Register at bit.ly/letscircle-nyc by May 7 🌿

You're not a failure if you can't hack the academy. It's ableist. You might not be cut out for it because it's designed to kill folks with your disabilities. It tried to kill me when I had a manic breakdown. You didn't fail if you can't fit its awful constrictions & codes, you just can't conform.

a disabled family of 6 needs funds to eat, get seizure meds and stay sheltered in freezing temperatures!!! it is snowing and dangerous for them to be outside! 💛💛💛 $70 goal today and extra for food!!! ppal: @/robinc89 ven: RobinColeman34

A proposed bill in California (backed by Democrats) would grant the state even more power to lock mad, mentally ill, and disabled folks up in psych facilities & forcibly give them psychotropic medications against their will. www.kqed.org/news/1206941... #psychabolition #disability #abolition

ICE has been holding a disabled Black man for a year! Rodney Taylor is a double amputee who was days away from receiving new prosthetic legs when ICE took him. He’s been denied his prosthetics & placed in solitary. His health is declining. Public outrage might save his life. Say his name:

Winter emergencies hit disabled people hardest. Let’s prepare together and keep our communities safe. Warming centers: 211 | Disability & Disaster Hotline: 800-626-4959

$415 left to raise! Can you help us meet this goal? #MutualAid #DisabilityJustice #Abolition #Crowdfunding #Disabled #BlackMutualAid

‼️ URGENT‼️ request for community support! A Black, Disabled Comrade in NYC is facing an immediate threat of homelessness. $1200 is needed TODAY to secure their housing and give them room to breathe. Venmo & Cashapp: strawb3rrym00n Use the purple heart emoji (💜) on the note. Please share & donate!!

We're back for day two of the NIH's RECOVER-TLC workshop on new #LongCOVID clinical trials. We'll catch you up on everything that happened yesterday, and share today's presentations as well. @betsyladyzhets.bsky.social is reporting live from the workshop in Bethesda, MD. bit.ly/4giPmAi

Building alternatives to 911 must be rooted in prison abolition, anti-capitalism, & radical autonomy, esp for BIPOC communities. Otherwise, you're reproducing the same coercive, paternalistic, anti-Black, ableist systems under the guise of "community care," and gaining some capital along the way.

Lil Nas X's arrest is the dangerous venn diagram of anti-Blackness, homophobia, misogynoir, ableism, and the ghastly violence of policing in this country. No one deserves to be surveilled & caged because they are in crisis. No one deserves to be surveilled & caged PERIOD. #abolition #antipsychiatry

"As we saw with the death of Jordan Neely, racism and ableism — that is, discrimination based on disability — against those we perceive as visibly mentally ill can even result in politicians and media outlets celebrating your death at the hands of a vigilante." !!!

i will be moderating this online panel for @projectlets.bsky.social !! come thruuuu REGISTER: bit.ly/care-in-action #abolition #mentalhealth #carework #peersupport #anticarceral #holistic #mutualaid #bluesky

Join Project LETS on Sunday Sept 21st @ 1PM ET (10AM PST) for an online panel discussion on Abolitionist Care Work in Action!❤️‍🔥 Hear from our Peer Support Advocates on what non-pathologizing, holistic care work looks like — outside of carceral frameworks & systems. REGISTER: bit.ly/care-in-action 🌀

The heat isn’t just uncomfortable, it’s disabling when your nervous system’s already fried. 🔥 Dysautonomia + Long COVID = 🧠 Brain fog 💓 Heart racing 💦 Sweat chaos 🪫 Energy crash Stay cool. Rest. You’re not imagining it. #LongCovid #MECFS #HeatSensitivity #POTS

People need to name Kennedy’s desire and goal of killing as many ‘unfit’ poor, sick, disabled, Black and brown people as possible—this is the only reasonable conclusion one can make from his ideas and policies.

☀️🔥Extreme heat & psych meds: Did you know that psychiatric meds can impair the body’s ability to sweat, regulate temperature, or sense thirst? 🧊 As temps rise, folks on psych meds are at higher risk of heat stroke, dehydration, & medical crises. #PsychAbolition #ExtremeHeat #PsychMeds #MutualAid

I just met with Detroit Peer Respite folks & as always feel so honored & happy to be organizing this beautiful project of anti carceral care for mental health crises. if anyone is so moved, we'd love to have a few more monthly donors supporting our non nonprofit! givebutter.com/peerrespitep...

this will be fire

Together, we’ll explore how we can work with plant medicine to support us in navigating altered states, easing chronic pain, and nourishing our nervous systems. We’ll connect with ancestral knowledge systems that have often been stolen or suppressed through colonial, imperial, & carceral violence.

🌿Join Project LETS & community herbalists/folks with lived experience for a virtual panel discussion on the intersections of Madness, disability, & herbal medicine through a lens of liberation, kinship, & ancestral reclamation. June 20ᵗʰ @ 1:30pm ET ASL Interpretation Register bit.ly/lets-herbalism

WE ARE RAISING $600 FOR OUR COMRADE. WE ARE ALMOST THERE! Thank you for the quick action! Old school last wishes at 76 yrs old with a terminal illness, after over 40 years in prison - is just to eat well from the prison store. Help us send him off proper!! ⛓️🔥 Clenched fists salute!

Donald Trump has long-espoused eugenicist and ableist beliefs. For @motherjones.com, I put together a timeline of some of these greatest (or worst) hits, which shows a pattern, starting back in the 1980s. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

ICE already has, especially people with psychiatric disabilities and those already at higher risk of Covid complications. Important report here: phr.org/our-work/res...

May is Mental Health Awareness Month. If you can afford it, consider sharing whatever you can with @projectlets.bsky.social projectlets.org/donate

On 4/5, the police responded to a crisis call & shot autistic teen Victor Perez 9 times just seconds after arriving on the scene. He died shortly after. No amount of training or funding will ever make the police safe crisis responders. @autisticadvocacy.org: autisticadvocacy.org/2025/04/asan...

RFK praising a doctor for spreading measles is the logical conclusion in a place that intentionally tried to eradicate its native population with disease. At this point getting diseases is not accidental, it’s their will we be diseased. The blood is at the root!

Are you looking for *free* anti-carceral peer support? Get connected with peer support advocates! Support offerings include: 🌿 Crisis & rapid response support 🌿 Help w advocacy & finding community resources 🌿 Connecting w spiritual & non-Western healing practitioners projectlets.org/get-support

Are you looking for *free* anti-carceral peer support? Get connected with peer support advocates! Support offerings include: 🌿 Crisis & rapid response support 🌿 Help w advocacy & finding community resources 🌿 Connecting w spiritual & non-Western healing practitioners projectlets.org/get-support

i’ve been postponing and rethinking doing this for a while now, but i updated my gofundme and increased my goal. to an amount i’m not sure i’ll be able to reach, and frankly just getting to the 50% mark in the next two weeks is the miracle i need right now 🥲 gofund.me/6ef63f4b

IT'S HERE: PSYCH ABOLITION IN PRACTICE ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 Our new collections of creative work are finally out!! How do we practice psych abolition? Read the intro piece from @stefkaufman.bsky.social & Thokoza Ndlondlo on "the Medicine of Madness" healingjusticeldn.org/in-practice/...

Today @thesicktimes.bsky.social: really important story by @jewstein3000.bsky.social about how the tilt table test, commonly used to diagnose POTS, can be dangerous for people with Long COVID and ME. thesicktimes.org/2025/04/08/i...

This week is National Public Health Week. A great way for all New Yorkers to support public health - Call your NY State Senator and Assemblymember and urge them to oppose a mask ban and any anti-mask legislation in the state budget! More info: covidadvocacyny.org/stopmaskbanny #NoNYMaskBan

It would mean a whole heck of a lot if y'all could spread this like spilled glitter for us and help get my bestie to Minnesota 💖💖💖

Announcing a panel exploring the complex reality of care relationships: Care Work: Domestic Labor and Liberation! Wednesday, April 16, 2025 | 4:00 - 5:30 PT | ASL | CART | Deaf Interpreters | virtual | recorded | dcc.page/domestic-labor (continued in comments)

"Trump’s union busting also poses an existential threat to disabled workers, who are overrepresented in the federal workforce... and especially overrepresented among federal union members." cepr.net/publications...

with aid not getting in and with ongoing bombardment again, eSims continue to be a crucial lifeline. if you are like me and can’t go to in-person things too often, please consider supporting our work directly: #ConnectingGaza bit.ly/eSimsRUs

My friend Noemi Ixchel Martinez, true OG disabled Latina queer punk zinester writer, from RGV aka Gloria Anzaldua's homeland, needs help for her and her family in a serious way. Please donate and boost if you can. gofund.me/5301fa2c

Welcome new followers! Reminder that free them all includes folks incarcerated in psychiatric facilities ❤️‍🔥 Art by arttwink.gay (IG: art_twink)

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Join Dr. Grant Bruno for a virtual Zoom session exploring how to better support Indigenous families with Autistic children by incorporating Indigenous perspectives and knowledge. Date: Thursday, April 10, 2025 Time: 7:00 p.m. - 8:45 p.m. Eastern Daylight Saving Time www.ocdsb.ca/news-events/...

$144/$600! thank you!! 💕💸

“If you were really that sick you would be in hospital” That’s not how it works. Chronically ill people are always sick. Yes, “that sick” Hospitals deal with acute & life threatening issues. They’re one of the most dangerous places for the chronically ill. They often can’t (or won’t) help us

People need to be able to talk about suicide without being afraid of police involvement, incarceration, or commitment in a psychiatric facility.

Helllooooo so we are still very very in the red. This continues to because of the # of top ups, which keeps Gazans connected continuously. We are nearly at a million and a half USD. Help us reach this goal by March! Donate: bit.ly/eSimsRUs #ConnectingGaza

Two things can be true at once: 1) The government should never be in control of our access to any meds, including psych meds. 2) Psych meds have damaged & harmed many people in devastating ways. That is not a conspiracy theory from the government. That is our reality as psychiatric survivors.