Are you a queer woman or gender non-conforming person with lived experience of trauma? 

Join our co-design team to create trauma care by-and-for our community! 

About the Project

This is a co-design research project to collaboratively create a care programme for queer women and gender diverse trauma survivors.

This project is in collaboration with PhD student Abbey Brunault (she/they), whose work focuses on improving mental health care approaches for queer women and gender diverse trauma survivors. They are a lived experience researcher whose work is rooted in feminist and liberation approaches to trauma care.  

What is co-design?

This is a research approach that brings together lived experience, lived expertise, cultural knowledge and professional experience to learn from each other, create something new, and share decision-making power.  

This project seeks to create care that: 

• Centres the lived knowledge of queer trauma survivors and our historic power care for each other.

• Addresses the ways that social and political oppression impact the way we experience and heal from trauma.

• Recognises the harm that many marginalised people have experienced from therapists and medical professionals.

This project might be for you…

• if you meet the below criteria;

• are aligned with our values of autonomous, abolitionist, and accessible mental health care;

• are interested in creating something that better supports you, your peers, and your community.

We’re recruiting Lived Experience Experts and Lived Experience Healers.

Criteria for Lived Experience Experts: 

• Age 18 and above. 

• Identify as LGBTQ+ person who experiences gendered oppression (including cisgender women, transgender, and non-binary people). 

• You have lived experience of trauma and traumatic stress. 

Criteria for Lived Experience Healers:

• You meet all the criteria for lived experience experts. 

• You have professional or volunteer experience providing care for queer women and gender diverse trauma survivors (therapists, social workers, victim advocates, peer solidarity volunteers, etc.). 

• You have knowledge and experience in care approaches that are rooted in liberation, justice, empowerment, abolition, and anti-oppressive practice. 

The Details

When: Sunday, Jan. 25th 11am-5pm + Sunday, Feb. 8th 11am-5pm

Where:  The Feminist Library (London)

What: You’ll take part in two half-day workshops which include brainstorming, creative storytelling, self-reflection, and shared decision-making to co-create a care programme for queer women and gender diverse trauma survivors.

Extra Info: This is a paid opportunity: you’ll be compensated £250 for your time. Plant-based lunch, a travel stipend, and care package will also be provided.

If you are interested in being part of this project, please fill out this contact form! 

Deadline to express interest: Sunday, January 4th 11:59 GMT.