Make Space

User-led collective creating spaces for more generous + nuanced ways to support those who self-harm | Peer solidarity/support, research, and workshops 🌟

[Make Space @makespace_co]

This is a complicated place to be. We have never & will never pay for ads/subscriptions on X. We've set up a BlueSky (https://t.co/rBVF0jiVqm) and are hoping to slowly move over there. In solidarity, the Make Space team x [2/2]

[Make Space @makespace_co]

A thousand thanks to the many hands and hearts that made this possible. We hope you enjoy it! Big shoutout to Lea for putting this together with such skill and care - check out their work at https://t.co/MfkHY18VrE 3/3

[Make Space @makespace_co]

The Arts & Ourselves zine is here! 🌟 The zine is a 36-page reflection on self-harm in its many forms. With writing, memes, and poetry - it is about our own lives, on our own terms. View the zine [and plain-text version] at: https://t.co/ofmnP4cEnW 1/3

[Make Space @makespace_co]

The zine comes out of a 4-month user-led creative arts programme. Sessions were for anyone with experience of self-harm, we made things, laughed, raged, and invented new worlds. The zine captures some of that magic; it is sad, silly, tender, and joyful. 2/3

[Make Space @makespace_co]

This is a complicated place to be. We have never & will never pay for ads/subscriptions on X. We've set up a BlueSky (https://t.co/rBVF0jiVqm) and are hoping to slowly move over there. In solidarity, the Make Space team x [2/2]

[Make Space @makespace_co]

At Make Space we are having conversations about what it means to be on X. We have built a small but precious community here & we do not want to lose touch, so for now, we are staying. [1/2]

[Make Space @makespace_co]

More magic from our mad memes workshop...

[Nima @nimacashunt]

The line between lived experience involvement and just straight up exploitation is pretty damn thin @makespace_co

[Make Space @makespace_co]

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[Nima @nimacashunt]

Fabulous time at tonight's @makespace_co mad memes workshop. You are all amazing <3

[Make Space @makespace_co]

The power of the Mad Meme! 🔥 Thanks Charlotte for sharing, to folks for joining, and to @FionaMalpass for excellent space holding, as always!

[Make Space @makespace_co]

💫 Still time to sign up👇 Mon 29th July, 6-7.30pm. Making Mad Memes with @FionaMalpass 🔥 Session is online, free, and open to any and all with experience of self-harm (whatever that means to you). Booking link below!

[Make Space @makespace_co]

Looking forward to the final (!!) event in our Arts & Ourselves programme - finishing off with the rescheduled Mad Memes workshop led by the brilliant @FionaMalpass. Join us for joy, rage, and meme making. 🔥 Mon 29th July, 6-7.30pm (Online). Sign up: https://t.co/pMzoUFzoMI 1/2

[Make Space @makespace_co]

Sessions are free to join and open to anyone with experience of self-harm, whatever that means to you. Join in as much or as little as you like, you are very welcome 🌟 2/2

[Make Space @makespace_co]

Looking forward to the final (!!) event in our Arts & Ourselves programme - finishing off with the rescheduled Mad Memes workshop led by the brilliant @FionaMalpass. Join us for joy, rage, and meme making. 🔥 Mon 29th July, 6-7.30pm (Online). Sign up: https://t.co/pMzoUFzoMI 1/2

[Make Space @makespace_co]

This space is for folks w/ experience of self-harm, whatever that means to you. You are welcome to participate as much or as little as you like. Bring any creative mediums you have to hand (pens, pencils, paper, etc) 🩷 2/2

[Make Space @makespace_co]

Next up: 🌟 Creating responses to self-harm 🌟 Monday 8th July, 6-7.30pm BST (online). We'll use creative prompts to explore what it means to build solidarity w one another - focussing on mad art, togetherness, & mad imagination. Sign up: https://t.co/R6lnk1BxNi 1/2

[National Survivor User Network @NSUNnews]

We are crowdsourcing a glossary of "The language of mental health lived experience landscape"!

With the goal of acknowledging and celebrating the plurality of language, we invite NSUN members to define a selection of words using the link below.

https://t.co/umAhrz9G1B

[Make Space @makespace_co]

Looking forward to some gentle making this eve (6-7.30pm, BST). The session is online, free to attend, and led by & for folks with experience of self-harm. Bring some arty things and we will share prompts to help you on your way. Sign up below 👇

[Make Space @makespace_co]

Join us for an open creative space led by the Make Space team: Monday 10th June, online, 6-7.30pm (BST). These spaces are free to attend + open to anyone with experience of self-harm, whatever that means to you. We hope you feel very welcome. Sign up here: https://t.co/pMzoUFzoMI

[Make Space @makespace_co]

Join us for an open creative space led by the Make Space team: Monday 10th June, online, 6-7.30pm (BST). These spaces are free to attend + open to anyone with experience of self-harm, whatever that means to you. We hope you feel very welcome. Sign up here: https://t.co/pMzoUFzoMI

[Make Space @makespace_co]

Morning folks ☀️ For various reasons, our Mad Memes workshop on Monday 10th June has been postponed (rescheduled date pending). However, we will still be running a space for folks with experience of self-harm to gather and make some things. 👇

[dr courtney buckler @cbuckler_]

Still space to sign up for this wonderful workshop - making characters & telling tales. Bring a pencil, paper, & willingness to make silly art 👇 Free & open to all w experience of self-harm (whatever that means to you). No disclosures required, just come along & be as you are 🩷

[National Survivor User Network @NSUNnews]

NSUN has today published a new report exploring experiences of menstruation within psychiatric inpatient settings by survivor researcher @hatporter.

Scroll for a summary of the report and its findings 🧵

https://t.co/R41yuJaEBL

[Voice Collective @VoiceCollective]

Want to join our team and work on the hearing voices projects at @MindinCamden? Deadline is end of June, so plenty of time to get your application in! Please share with anyone who might be interested😀 https://t.co/Mxk7UHj7Wu