We build non-carceral community mental health collectives provide political education & advocacy. By/for mad, mentally ill, Disabled, neurodivergent folks.
Care Beyond the (Carceral) State:
Disrupting Psychiatric Violence in Our Communities and Healing Outside the Medical Industrial Complex (MIC)
✨A 3-part series from 9/26-9/28
Register & more info: projectlets.org/fall-2024-se…
ALT Care Beyond the (Carceral) State: Disrupting Psychiatric Violence in Our Communities and Healing Outside the Medical Industrial Complex (MIC)
a 3 part series with Project LETS
September 26-28th
register:
projectlets.org/ fall-2024-series
ALT Care Beyond the (Carceral) State a 3 part series with Project LETS
Psychiatric Survivor Panel Discussion
Thursday, September 26th / 6-8 PM ET
Teach-In: Healing outside (& in-between) the MIC & systems of Psychiatric Knowledge
Friday, September 27th / 5-7:30 PM ET
Interactive Workshops
Saturday, September 28th
Starting @12PMET
*MIC = Medical Industrial Complex
ALT Interactive Workshops
Saturday, September 28th
Starting at 12 PM EST
• From Practitioners to Co-Conspirators:
Alternative Harm Reduction Strategies for
Systems Workers
with es & adrian
• Anti-Blackness and sanism in mental health care with alyssa christopher
• Building Collective & Anti-Carceral
Strategies for Young People in Crisis
with heena sharma
• Supporting Peers Through Psychiatric
Incarceration
with stefanie lyn kaufman-mthimkhulu
•Astrology as a spiritual alternative to clinical therapy with kay, darling
Project LETS is hosting an upcoming panel discussion on Madness, Disability, & Herbalism, featuring community herbalists & folks with lived experience.
June 20th @ 1:30 PM ET w/ ASL interpretation.
Learn more: projectlets.org/herbalism
Register: bit.ly/lets-herbalism
ALT A graphic for a panel discussion over a close-up photograph of blooming linden flowers. The flowers are pale yellow with many long stamens, clustered against a dark green leafy background.
Centered at the top in large bold white text:
“Madness, Disability, and Herbalism”
Below in italicized white text:
“A panel discussion with community herbalists and folks with lived experience”
At the bottom, smaller white text reads:
“June 20ᵗʰ @ 1:30 PM ET
Register: bit.ly/lets-herbalism
with ASL interpretation”
In the lower right corner, the Project LETS logo is displayed in teal and cream.
Psychiatric survivors do not need a “clinical assessment” of our experiences. We don’t need psychiatrists to approve of our memoirs. Instead of learning you revert to the only thing you know: diagnosing. This writing is horrific & a grand example of epistemic violence in action.
A Memoir For the Iatrogenic Age
A Review of @LauraDelano ’s “Unshrunk”
“The reason I’m no longer mentally ill is that I made a decision to question the ideas about myself that I’d assumed were fact & discard what I learned was actually fiction.” Delano
psychiatrymargins.com/p/a-me…
If your state is not on the list of those trying to dismantle #Section504 you can still contact your Attorney General & urge them to file an amicus brief in support of Section 504.
My guy doesnt have email but I’ll be calling & sending a 🐌 mail to all his offices #Protect504 ♿️
We are looking for folks to join our Anti-Carceral Mental Health Response Program rapid response team. Are you a seasoned anti-carceral frontline crisis responder? Psych survivor? Peer supporter? Holistic healing practitioner? & interested in working with Project LETS? 🔥 —>
Contact info@projectlets.org with a brief description of you, your identity, experience with frontline crisis response/peer support work, relationship to psychiatric abolition, training lineage, etc.
Direct any questions to the same email address, or in our DMs!
Support our anti-carceral care sticker fundraiser via @projectlets for a Black, trans psychiatric survivor ✨ 100% goes to supporting this community member.
Find them on our website at projectlets.org/lets-shop
$5 each! 🔥
ALT Buy a sticker, support a Black, trans, psychiatric survivor. 100% of funds goes to supporting this community member.
Find them on the Project LETS website! www.projectlets.org/lets-shop
Sticker 1: Divest from institutions, invest in community care. [Illustration of two rats in varying shades of brown embracing in a hug]
Sticker 2: Abolish carceral systems [Illustration of a raccoon holding a light blue sign with text]
Sticker 3: There is wisdom in madness. [Illustration of a darker green colored frog with a speech bubble above its head]
ALT Sticker 1: Divest from institutions, invest in community care. [Illustration of two rats in varying shades of brown embracing in a hug]
Project LETS x embracing.ambiguity
ALT Sticker 2: Abolish carceral systems [Illustration of a raccoon holding a light blue sign with text]
Project LETS x embracing.ambiguity
ALT Sticker 3: There is wisdom in madness. [Illustration of a darker green colored frog with a speech bubble above its head]
Project LETS x embracing.ambiguity
✨ URGENT ASK: I need to speak with a legal advocate, lawyer, and/or mental health worker who is in New York and/or has knowledge of inpatient psychiatry at Bellevue Hospital urgently. Please share this is TIME-SENSITIVE.
We finally have a bluesky account! Follow us on there: @/projectlets🌻We have mostly been using IG, but want to broaden our options ✌️
What are folks using to migrate away from this cesspool?
bsky.app/profile/projectlets…
When disabled people tell you that we’re in danger - believe us.
This is eugenics. It needs to stop. Patients are being coerced into medically assisted death & it’s happening far more to those who are poor, marginalized, alone etc.
This is ghastly.
Sudan deserves more than your occasional retweet, the every so often “and Sudan” when you talk about liberation. Sudan deserves more than your silence, your negligence. Sudanese people have been suffering constantly for over 500 days, they deserve your outrage and support.
Sudan deserves more. Sudanese people deserve more. Black deaths are not worth any less than any other death, Black suffering is not just “the norm”.
We have distributed $180,000 worth of $150 and $300 payments to more than 600 people impacted by hurricanes Helene and Milton. We still have around $200,000 in requests from 700 more people.
ALT For those still waiting for support, we are working to help as many people as possible. We remain in solidarity with you.
We've created a comprehensive resource guide for those who may need assistance following the recent environmental disasters across the South. This guide is accessible in both English and Spanish. Check it out here: ow.ly/fa3c50TQfvm
"Self-harm is not a psychiatric diagnosis.." Lol yeah maybe not in theory. However, for most of us who self-harm, we know that in practice, self-harm is synonymous with BPD. You don't need to meet *one single other diagnostic criteria* & they'll slap that label on you for life 👍
"Drivers of self-harm have been neglected by governments. Self-harm is not a psychiatric diagnosis; it is a behaviour shaped by society, culture, and individual factors." - this is such a crucial insight; responses to self-harm need to be wide-ranging and not just clinical 2/
For #WorldMentalHealthDay I'm resharing my study on genital & breast self-harm. Recycling the same sanitised "be kind" platitudes yr after yr is pointless. We need real conversations about the reality of what it is to live with mental illness and trauma.
psychiatryisdrivingmemad.co.…
Marginalized people, poor people, disabled people etc. are always the first to warn society about an impending crisis. And they are almost always ignored. Yet, when everything collapses, they are the first to be abandoned. This is an unacceptable moral injustice.
Hiring a PhD level Mental Health Research Scientist (24007948) to work on multiple NIMH grants focused on early psychosis and public sector mental health services. Lived experience applicants strongly encouraged! cfopitt.taleo.net/careersect…
Congratulations to Alice Wong (@SFdirewolf) on becoming a 2024 #MacFellow!
If you're unfamiliar, check out Alice Wong's extensive advocacy and written works (including writings on ableism in healthcare)!
Find the Disability Visibility Project here:
disabilityvisibilityproject.…