Black Neurodates

To NEUROMANCE means to “fall in love with (neuro)divergency”.

• 27th Sept - Guest Speaker: Micha Frazer-Carroll is a journalist involved with a number of radical health and healing initiatives. She founded and edited Blueprint, a lived experience-led mental health magazine, and was the opinion editor at gal-dem, a magazine created by people of colour of marginalised genders. She also worked as the welfare and rights officer for Cambridge University Students' Union, mainly campaigning around racism and mental health. This year she published Mad World, which takes a radical political approach to carve out a new politics of mental health. She organises with and does press work for a number of abolitionist groups, and is a trustee at the National Survivor User Network (NSUN), a lived experience-led member organisation. 

• 20th Nov - Guest Speaker: Ngozi (they/she) is a Black mad hottie, with an organizing approach grounded in disability justice and Black autonomy. They coined the term neuroexpansive to as a way to name and make space for the  the experiences of Black people. A crip and death doula, guided by theorizing within Blackness and disability justice, Ngozi is committed to building capacity and care for Black madness in their community. Previously focused on building organizing collectives with survivors and abolitionists, they were a core organizer of the No New Jails NYC campaign and continue to hold the line against fascism, eug

• 18th Dec - Guest Speaker: Emmanuel Fru is a 27 year Black man who had an autistic meltdown at a shopping centre in Sweden in 2019. The police were called and got into an altercation with Emmanuel, who has been indefinitely detained ever since, he won’t be released until he can prove he has ‘outgrown’ his autism. His family have not seen him since Christmas Day in 2020 - they were banned from seeing him, and sentenced for documenting his treatment in the institutions. His family want to use his case to highlight the experiences of neurodivergent Black people and migrants. Come along for this neurodate to hear about Emmanuel’s story + find out about his family’s advocacy work with autism in Nigeria and Cameroon. We’ll have an online letter writing party so that we can send letters to the Swedish embassy to demand his release.