Welcome! Book here to join NEUROMANCERS' Mortal Matters Constellation!
About Mortal Matters 🧠
Mortal Matters is a welcoming and safer space for beings (16+) with lived experience of contemplating suicide, suicidal ideation/ thoughts, and contemplating our relationship with mortality.
We hope to explore our relationships with mortality, surviving oppressive systems, deathly and life-giving happenings. We do not aim to impose nor declare a definition of suicidality and encourage participants to consider their unique relationship to it.
This group is open to all faiths, spirituality, atheism, and different understandings of belief. We are rooted in mad liberation and abolitionist praxis. We seek to build connection and understanding in our group while exploring our relationships with life/death and the types of boundaries between them. We aim to widen our perspectives on death, subverting and complicating western narratives and other common framings of suicidality.
We will meet on Wednesdays at X-Xpm BST for six (6) weeks. (Convert to your timezone here.)
- Wednesday 14 August - Our unique relationship with mortality and the term "suicide".
- Wednesday 21 August - Communicating suicidality in our communities.
- Wednesday 28 August - The role of religion/spirituality in our relationship with death.
- Wednesday 4 September - The role of oppressive systems in our relationship with mortality.
- Wednesday 11 September - Individual and collective autonomy.
- Wednesday 18 September - The impact of anti-child ageism and reconnecting to our childhood soul.
Mortal Matters is led by facilitators with ‘lived-experience’ with suicidality. Within all online sessions, captions, use of the chat, and optional mic/camera will be available. Furthermore, you can join our Discord server to connect between and beyond sessions. Please contact us with questions.
FAQs
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Where can I book other Constellations? 🔗
See all other available events here.
What are Constellations?✨️
NEUROMANCERS is a community organisation and radical magazine, for and by neurodivergent people. Learn more about us here.
Constellations are our anti-carceral, sliding-scale Peer Solidarity groups. Peer Solidarity (coined by Aiyana Goodfellow) is an elevated form of peer support which combines political education with community healing. Learn more about Constellations.
How much do the Constellations cost? 💸
In line with our accessibility statements, we offer sliding-scale tickets for all Constellation sessions, with free spaces for Black people. We ask and expect middle class, financially privileged, and white people to engage in personal reparations: choose our higher tier options to redistribute your wealth. All funds go towards our Solar Survival Support (mutual aid) projects.
Each ticket gives you access to all six (6) sessions within this Constellation. These are not drop-in spaces: you must commit to most or all of the sessions.
Sliding-Scale:
- Free for Black People
- Tier One: £15 (£2.50 per session)
- Tier Two: £30 (£5 per session)
- Tier Three: £60 (£10 per session)
- Tier Four: £60+ (pay what you can)
Payment Plans & Discounts:
The payment plan feature is available until a week before the Constellation sessions begin. If booking at Tier Two and above, you can secure your place with a 25% deposit, and pay the rest up-to three (3) days before the first session of your Constellation.
Spaces will fill quickly and each tier is limited, so book as soon as possible to avoid disappointment!