📢NEW REPORT: Exploring “community” & the mental health lived experience landscape This report explores whether those with lived experience of mental ill-health, distress & trauma could be considered a “community”, & how the term can be forced upon us. nsun.org.uk/resource/explo…

'‘Crip time’ is both a theory and a practice – and a conception of living with illness that many patients bring to their healthcare interactions' MedHums 101: What is Crip Time? By Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril thepolyphony.org/2024/01/26/med…

1st article for special issue 'Critical Suicide Studies: Decolonial and Participatory Creative Approaches' (Social Sciences): ‘Making Sense of Critical Suicide Studies: Metaphors, Tensions, and Futurities’, by Luiza Cesar Riani Costa and Jennifer White mdpi.com/2076-0760/13/4…

It's here! It's queer! It took 12 years! _Crip Spacetime_ finally exists and is about to be out in the world. The amazing Alice Wong Alice Wong is holding a giveaway of 5 SIGNED copies. Please jump in! …bility-visibility-newsletter.ghost.io/crip/

This has made my morning shine brighter! Congratulations Mush, what a deserving project. Looking forward to listening to your recorded speech 💜

Many people right now are tapping into the heartbeat & cries of the universe and the oppressed, and it is leading many of us towards altered/extreme states (what is perceived as psychosis). Here are some important reminders for supporting someone navigating altered states:

BEING's Social Justice Report released today. bit.ly/3WuYZDR

"We reject passivity, cynicism, pessimism and lethargy. We replace them with hope, determination and civil disobedience." Overland is proud to publish this joint statement from 11 Palestine student solidarity encampments across Australia. overland.org.au/2024/05/statem…

A mistake is forgetting to add salt to rice, it is not deliberately bombing a safe zone.

An incredible statement from the daughter of Floreat killer Mark Bombara. 9News Perth 9News Australia

Labor just voted against recognising the State of Palestine. They joined Peter Dutton, instead of the 146 other countries who have taken this crucial step for justice. None of us will forget Labor’s complicity and cowardice in the face of genocide.

This is the only democratic country in the world without a charter of human rights in legislation or the Constitution. Today the Parliamentary Human Rights Committee that I sit on has recommended that Australia establish a Human Rights Act. Read more: lidiathorpe.com/mr_human_right…

This is huge. 300 public servants risk their jobs to sign open letter. “As public servants whose work is to serve our communities, it is our obligation to voice our deep concern that you are leading Australia to be complicit in an additional genocide” theguardian.com/australia-news…

Mental health support by Sophina Mariette. Art featurerd on the back cover of our summer issue.

Already had 10 people sign up to this new online course on mental health and human rights. If your organisation has funded before #EOFY, now is the time to enroll in 'Human Rights from the Top'. Enroll: humanrightsfromthetop.thinkific.com/courses/human-…

Im coming to hate the MH lived exp space. Not the beautiful peer support & advocacy that happens external to, or despite, systems. But I just don’t know I can survive much more of the political manoeuvring, co-opting, devaluing that happens when larger systems come into play.

If only Peter Malinauskas had the power in this state to actually do something meaningful to address homelessness 🤷🏽‍♀️but sure, go right ahead and cosplay homelessness in your Kathmandu sleeping bag 🤦🏽‍♀️

Yall: are you a critical race theorist? An afropessimist? A Black feminist? A Black Queer feminist? An afrofuturist? A Marxist? A Black Marxist? A socialist? A Black Nationalist? A Queer Theorist? I’m intellectually promiscuous: I gets around and use theories that are useful

🧵 1/ The Vic Government is failing to deliver on its promises to implement the Royal Commission recommendations on mental health. Despite their commitments, they're falling behind or have broken core election promises. Here’s a breakdown of the issues. #MentalHealthMatters

Can we just be really clear on 2 things: 1. We're cutting the life-saving and life-affirming #NDIS to pay for delayed and unhelpful #AUKUS submarines. 2. We're avoiding a ban on gambling ads to support gambling & media companies who profit from gambling-related harm.