Project LETS

Since its founding in 2013, Project LETS has been envisioning and enacting abolitionist alternatives to carceral psychiatric systems. After a decade of crisis response, free peer support and holistic healing, political education, and advocacy inside and outside locked wards, we’ve reached a critical financial juncture threatening the future of the organization. Due to an increasingly difficult and hostile funding landscape, Project LETS cannot continue to sustain operations without urgent support from our community. Our ask? divest from cages, reinvest in community care ❤️‍🔥 We’re starting a crowdfunding campaign to enable Project LETS to continue to fight for true abolition, leaving no one behind. Make a contribution at: /lets — Link in bio or scan the QR code in the images above. You can also take a screenshot and hold down the QR code to access the website. * You can also Venmo @projectlets and we will transfer all contributions to the campaign. Project LETS has always been primarily funded and supported by our community members, and we are so grateful to the Borealis Foundation for their consistent support of Project LETS. If you believe in this work, please help us continue providing these critical services and offerings. ❤️‍🔥 For information on where funds go and what we do at Project LETS, check out the information on the fundraising campaign! Every contribution is an act of solidarity. To honor your support, we’re offering small gifts rooted in community, creativity, and care (for contributions from $20-$100). When you make your contribution, please make sure you share your mailing address 💌 #ProjectLETS #PsychAbolition #DisabilityJustice #PeerSupport #AntiCarceralMentalHealth

📢 We need to be clear: Psychiatric survivors’ alignment with MAHA and the far right is a betrayal of our most marginalized members and Project LETS wants no part of it. Notice whose medications are under fire. Anti-psychiatry rhetoric in MAHA spaces fixates on antidepressants (medications more commonly prescribed to white, middle-class patients) while staying largely silent on antipsychotics, which are disproportionately forced on poor people, Black people, and people in institutions. That is a political choice. RFK Jr. is not our ally. He is actively pushing to EXPAND psychiatric incarceration. He has spoken openly about work camps, farms, and “re-housing” programs. He has specifically targeted Black children on ADHD medications with language about “re-parenting” and “re-housing” – framing state intervention into Black families as wellness. This is a new coat of paint on the same carceral system we’ve always been fighting. Project LETS remains committed to Mad Liberation rooted in Disability Justice, racial justice, and anti-carceral politics. NOTE: We will not hesitate to remove and block any comments or discussion that engages in racism, anti-Blackness, eugenics, or other harmful and oppressive language and ideologies. [Image descriptions will be posted shortly in the comments] #MadLiberation #PsychSurvivors #PsychAbolition #DisabilityJustice #MAHA

✨Join Project LETS for an afternoon clinic on disability-focused advance planning (including free notarization): June 6th, 1:00-5:00 PM ET 55 Cromwell Street Providence, RI 02909 😷 Masks required and provided! See our registration form (link in bio) for other access practices in place, and the opportunity to share additional access needs. 🗒️ We’ll go over psychiatric and general advance directives so that your autonomy and self-determination is preserved in cases of emergency. You’ll also have the opportunity to draft or edit your own documents (while receiving peer-based support from other disabled folks) and get them notarized for free at the end of the clinic (or on a future date)! *While this event is in-person, we hope to host future clinics virtually! 🎨: @embracing.ambiguity #ProjectLETS #PsychAbolition #DisabilityJustice #SelfDetermination

Calling all youth 14-19 in NYC & RI passionate about anti-carceral mental health care & peer support! Join us for our upcoming listening circles to help shape our youth abolitionist mental health programming ❤️‍🔥 NYC: May 13th 6-7:30 PM ET RI: May 28th 6-7:30 PM ET REGISTER (link in bio) —> bit.ly/letscircle-nyc & bit.ly/letscircle-ri 🌱 Virtual on Zoom. $50 stipend provided to each youth who attends! The circle will be capped at 12 seats. We will let you know if you’re accepted or on the waitlist. 🌀 In 2024, we partnered with Nine Neighborhoods Fund and piloted an 8-week bilingual cohort of our РМНА training program for over 60 high school students in Providence, Rhode Island. In preparation for relaunching our training cohorts this fall, we want to hear from youth about what you want to see! 🌟 #PeerSupport #DisabilityJustice #PsychAbolition #CareNotCages [Image descriptions will be posted shortly in the comments below]

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📢 Calling all NYC youth ages 14-19! We want to hear from you about what you want to see in our mental health and peer support youth programs. Join us for a virtual NYC youth listening circle. 📅 Wednesday, May 13th 6-7:30pm EST Virtual on Zoom NYC youth ages 14-19 ✨ All participants in the circle will receive a small stipend of $50 for their time as well as priority registration for our programming taking place this Summer and Fall. ✨ We will be capping the circle to 12 participants. Since there are limited seats, you will hear back from us about our decisions and if you are added to our wait list. ➡️ Register at bit.ly/letscircle-nyc by Thurs May 7th 🌀 Your feedback will inform updates to our 8-week peer support training cohort for high schoolers that was first piloted in 2024. We are planning on launching two in–person cohorts this fall, one in NYC and one in Providence, RI. Stay tuned for updates! 📝 This circle is only open to high school aged youth (14-19) who live within the five boroughs, The Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, and Staten Island. You do not need to be a current student to attend. If you are 13 but will be entering 9th grade in the fall, please let us know on the form! 🤔 If you have any questions, you can reach out to Heena at [email protected] or text/call at (347) 454-2750. You can also email Heena your responses to the form if that is more accessible to you! #YouthMentalHealth #ProjectLETS #PeerMentalHealth #DisabilityJustice

🕊️ Please consider supporting one of our long-term peer supporters. They have an upcoming medical transition surgery which has been further complicated by chronic illnesses and new diagnoses. During surgery recovery they will be unable to do hard labor and gigwork, which they typically rely on for survival. All funds will go towards their food, recovery supplies and bills. Image description: A single slide has a light blue, textured background with imagery of chaotic crested waves and a bird flying above. The large heading text says “MUTUAL AID for disabled, intersex-trans person”. Smaller text states: “A long-time peer supporter and DJ organizer with LETS and elsewhere is in need of support for an upcoming medical transition surgery. They have been navigating decline in their chronic illnesses and new diagnoses as a result of complications and provider oversight during another recent procedure. All funds will go towards food, recovery supplies, and bills while they’re unable to do hard labor and gigwork for income. </3”. A box outlines ways to contribute through vnmo and CA using the username “notsoap”. DM for other methods!

Vale is in need of urgent support in Göttingen and remotely. Vale has extremely severe ME and is reliant on community efforts to get care. 💙 Some of Vale’s caregivers won’t be available after next week, so more are urgently needed. Vale also needs medical support, as Vale is becoming more malnourished each day. If you can support in any way, that will make a huge difference 💙 [image descriptions posted in pinned comment thread shortly] **posted by a supporter for Vale, who has limited communication capacities

10 DAYS LEFT TO REGISTER for PENUMBRA, an online fundraiser in benefit of thái Lu (@littleom ) ‼️ Join us virtually on Saturday April 25, 2026 at 12 PT / 2 CT / 3 ET for an afternoon of readings and music performances by SiQ and friends, hosted by Gray (of SiQ) (@chronicbane ). What life could spring forth if we commit to loving each other in shadows and uncertainty? What is fully eclipsed when we fail to do so? TO REGISTER: head to bit.ly/pen0425 to complete your registration and make a donation of $5-15+ (please exceed the scale if you are able!). Please note that this is a fundraiser event, and a donation is required to attend. We encourage donations to thái regardless of event attendance. Stay tuned for future SiQ events free of cost 💛[yellow heart] Sick in Quarters (SiQ) is a transnational network of disabled and chronically ill artists and organizers working in spirited connection and collaboration toward disabled liberation. thái Lu is a transdisciplinary artist, writer, and community organizer centering their practice on the social, cultural, and physical effects of chronic illness. As a chronically ill, disabled, neurodivergent, and gender-divergent first generation American from a family of Vietnamese refugees, they explore Western bio-politics and epigenetics, Southeast Asian diaspora, post-war intergenerational suffering, relational ecologies of interdependence, and the concept of metamorphosis. thái’s body is under immense stress as they continue to experience chronic infections, severe allergic reactions, and persistent fevers while facing unsustainable ongoing medical costs. They currently need to raise funds for medical bandages, new immune treatments and medications that are critical to their survival, and to maintain access to their healthcare. READINGS BY: Adrienne Greenblatt @deathinmidwinter Erin Noehre @erin.rosecheek.renee Dove ER @_fallrisk Gray Agpalo @chronicbane Thương Trần @gh0st.mantiis MUSIC/SOUND BY: Meesh Sara Fradkin (no IG) Mila Culpa @milaculpa image descriptions in comments

UPDATE 4/13: We have met our goal of 100 monthly subscriptions! We’ve capped the number of subscriptions at 100 so that our artist’s hands don’t fall off, and have stopped accepting new subscriptions through GiveButter. Thank you all so much! If you feel called to do so, we invite you to make a general donation to our main crowdfunding campaign at: givebutter.com/lets (link in bio) ❤️‍🔥 Mad Mail update! 🌀 Since we launched our mutual aid project, Mad Mail, we’ve received an overwhelming amount of contributions — 65 monthly subscriptions in just 2 days! ❤️‍🔥 Our artist is hard at work and all mail will be sent out on the first of each month. Our dream goal is to raise $1000 each month to go directly into the hands of Mad and Disabled folks. That means we’re aiming for 100 subscribers (we plan to cap this program at 100 subscriptions to ensure our artist’s hands do not fall off!) Thank you SO MUCH to everyone (all 65!! of you) that has subscribed so far — we’re 65% of the way there! 🎉 Ready to subscribe? Are you an artist looking to get involved? Visit our website: projectlets.org/mad-mail [🔗 in bio] #PsychSurvivor #DisabilityJustice #MadLiberation #Abolition #CommunityCare

UPDATE 4/13: We have met our goal of 100 monthly subscriptions! We’ve capped the number of subscriptions at 100 so that our artist’s hands don’t fall off, and have stopped accepting new subscriptions through GiveButter. Thank you all so much! If you feel called to do so, we invite you to make a general donation to our main crowdfunding campaign at: givebutter.com/lets (link in bio) ❤️‍🔥 🌀 Introducing Mad Mail, a mutual aid project by and for Mad folks! 🎨 you get cool art each month 🫂 Mad and Disabled are supported with direct funds Mad Mail is a monthly art-based mail club with 100% of proceeds going to support Mad and Disabled folks, psychiatric survivors, and people receiving support from Project LETS. Art is created by @embracing.ambiguity for the first few months, but we’re seeking other volunteer artists as well! Ready to subscribe? Are you an artist looking to get involved? Visit our website: projectlets.org/mad-mail [🔗 in bio] #PsychSurvivor #DisabilityJustice #MadLiberation #Abolition #CommunityCare

A note for this moment 🪻 Psychiatric survivor wisdom is not the wisdom of having been fixed. It is the wisdom of having endured a system designed to fix you into someone else’s idea of functional. [Image descriptions coming in comments shortly] #PsychiatricSurvivors #DisabilityJustice #MadLiberation #PsychiatricAbolition