Tribute to Seni’s Law and Aijibola Lewis The last year has witnessed a proliferation of events, funding, and consultations around… more
Year: 2021
Cognitive justice and survival
Survivors at the sharp end of oppressive practices and history, don’t need rhetoric, game playing or a supremacist gaze but a compassionate praxis always moving toward justice…. more
Through Pain Unbearable and Impossible to Name
Imagine that this is not how people see you. Imagine that the stain has been washed off. Imagine that you never sat on the pavement while the paramedics laughed and refused to place you in an ambulance and take you to the hospital, to offer care to a homeless body, a corrupt body, a worthless body, an unnecessary body. Imagine that it didn’t strike you as strange even then: the way your friend’s voice rose in a crescendo of disbelief and outrage, the way you couldn’t quite believe it, couldn’t quite emphasize with their pain. As if you had value. As if you were a human being. As if you were worth saving…. more
Why The KillTheBill Movement Affects Everyone
On Monday, the police powers bill that has been the topic of a summer of protest under the #KillTheBill movement… more
Book Review – Linda Gask’s ‘Finding True North: The Healing Power of Place’
NSUN member Heather Cobb reviews Linda Gask’s new book, Finding True North… more
Experience. Leadership. Clashes.
Our seventh in a short series of blogs and vlogs exploring what “lived experience leadership” means to us. Past and current experiences… more
Thinking about what “leadership” means
You can find the rest of our blogs and vlogs on lived experience leadership here. Have something to say about… more
Why we need to think bigger and further within lived experience leadership
You can find the rest of our blogs and vlogs on lived experience leadership here. Have something to say about… more
Lived experience leadership: making meaning out of messy situations
You can find the rest of our blogs and vlogs on lived experience leadership here. Have something to say about… more
Nothing about us without us: why lived experience is invaluable to peer support
When looking at the holes in support systems we are forced to reconcile with the fact that although lived experience… more
Facilitating brave spaces online
Blog by Make Space Collective, April 2021 Facilitating brave conversations online Make Space is a user-led collective. We create spaces for… more
Autism and colour in a monochrome anti-neurodivergent psychiatric setting
I knew someone who was detained under the Mental Health Act section 3 for up to 4 years in 8… more