I Love Misery: QTIBPOC Mental Health Fundraiser
Misery was created to support the mental health and collective care of our community; queer, transgender & intersex Black & people of colour (QTIBPOC), following the suicide of a friend.
Over the last two years, we have held 21 free community healing events, supporting over 1200 individual members of our community.
As a peer-led collective, we would like to raise at least £15,000 to continue responding to the needs of our community, expand in ways that ensure the sustainability of the collective, and keep on facilitating joy for QTIBPOC through our free and accessible therapeutic programmes such as our Misery Meets healing spaces, Misery Moves embodied dance workshops, and a herbal healing programme centering mental health. 
MORE ABOUT MISERY
The QTIBPOC community is disproportionately affected by suicide, homelessness, and harmful substance use to only name a few, and since 2019 Misery has worked to provide the community with the resources, support, and joy that it deserves.
We champion practices of community care, accessibility, and ancestral modes of healing and are known for hosting sober parties (arguably some of the best), workshops, performances, healing circles, skill & resource-sharing, and other events centered around harm reduction and therapeutic practices.
When Covid-19 made it impossible for us to hold space face to face, Misery responded with a series of online events that would be educational and soothing at a time when mental health struggles have been exacerbated for most. From March - December 2020, Misery ran Misery Meets, a monthly healing circle, and workshop designed to support the mental health of QTIBPOC. The sessions were guided by therapist-in-training, Sabah Choudrey who facilitated conversations around issues relevant to the community such as addiction, grief, pleasure, family, confidence, and sexual health.
We want to continue offering free events to sustain our community’s wellbeing throughout 2021 and beyond, but we need your help!
Misery is self-funded, while always ensuring that volunteers, artists, and contributors get paid fairly, leaving little to no money to securely plan and fund our range of upcoming projects. For the first time, we are asking for donations from our friends, the community, and those outside of our community who can afford to support QTIBPOC community care.
We want to keep providing for any and all queer, trans, and intersex individuals that want or need us, for all generations, for those who yearn for sober spaces or don’t always feel comfortable at the club, for those seeking resources and validation, and for those who look to community for fun, care, and support. Our goals are rooted in ensuring Misery can be sustained and developed long-term, and this comes down to funding. Please donate and share to help keep Misery as magical as it can be. 
You can read more about Misery in this article in i-D or this interview in gal-dem. You can also watch this short film about the making of Misery and the history of QTIBPOC nightlife in the UK .
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If you would like to make a larger donation or financially support Misery in another way, please get in touch, and if you personally can’t donate then we’d love it if you could share this fundraiser with anyone who can.
