Survivor Support and Liberation
We want to change the conversation around those who have experienced violence and harm.
We want to change what healing and support looks like.
We want to liberate each other from violent structures, systems of harm and dangerous expectations.
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 wants to build spaces of radical care and deep honest learning.
Founded by two survivors, who had both worked extensively within and been supported by mainstream support services (as well as activist spaces) found existing survivor support and care limiting, inaccessible and in many ways harmful. They saw the urgent need for a space that was entirely founded, led and developed by those with lived-experience rather than those with only learned knowledge. A space that is joyous, alive, powerful and honest. A space that recognises the deep connection between femicide and ecocide, male violence and state violence and that works for collective liberation rather than self care.
We work from a place that rejects the idea that we have ‘disorders’ or something wrong with us because of trauma. We are having very valid responses to the very real violence that exists. It’s the systems that need to be fixed, not us.