Survivor Support and Liberation
SLEEC believe in abolitionist care and healing.
We want to liberate each other from violent structures, systems of harm and carceral frameworks.
Many survivors who have been through trauma also have to fight state violence; facing an openly sexist and racist criminal justice system, classist benefit system and an exclusionary well-being and recovery world. We all have to navigate healing and justice through systems set up to fail us.
SLEEC was founded by two survivors (Meggan & Bryony) and shaped by their lived experiences of male violence, rape, sexual violence and domestic abuse.
They first met through protests. Trying to fight and resist against the welfare cuts to domestic and sexual violence services in their city, and across the UK. It was in this struggle that they found each other and grew a friendship based on our shared dream of a less fucked world.
This dream still exists for both of them.
SLEEC started as a response to the lack of care and support available for people who had experienced sexual violence, domestic violence, male violence and state violence that is actually built and led by us. They wanted to make something that went beyond our limited view of care, that prioritised individual and collective need and that challenged mainstream systems of support.
We work from a place that rejects the idea that we have ‘disorders’ or something wrong with us because of trauma. We are all having valid responses to the brutal violence that exists.
It’s the systems that need to be fixed, not us.