Creative Survivor Activist ☮️🌈 NI Creative Connections #PeaceforAll Campaign & Granny Rachels Kitchen 🎭 Creativity + 🌏Community + ❤️Connection = 🌈Hope
Joined May 2022
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Magz Louise (she/her) retweeted
“We need to treat the roots, we need to treat the cause, and not the symptoms.”
Structural factors such as inequality, discrimination, poverty, unemployment, and lack of housing, are all drivers of poor mental health.
Endorse the #Give5 Framework now 👉 nlb.ie/take-action/give-5
Magz Louise (she/her) retweeted
#NewScript activist Magz Gibney has got her hands on a copy of this amazing book ‘Drop the Disorder + Do Something’ 💙
Thrilled to have a chapter in this book on activism to change the culture of mental health!
Get your copy 👉 pccs-books.co.uk/products/dr…
ALT A woman holding a book with the title ‘Drop the Disorder + Do Something’.
Magz Louise (she/her) retweeted
‘You need to listen to us. We tell our stories because we never want anyone else to go through what we’ve gone through’
- Kirsty Scott
Join us on #WMHD 2024 to hear Kirsty and others’ stories, and help to transform mental health services.
Register 👉 bit.ly/4fP16tD
ALT A headshot of Kirsty - a woman with blonde hair, glasses, and a blue shirt.
Magz Louise (she/her) retweeted
“At solstice, the sun reaches the highest point in the sky... A moment not separated by boundaries or time.”
The perfect morning to walk up Divis with @GlorNaMona, as part of Curious Minds, exploring mental health through conversations rooted in community and solidarity 🌞
ALT A large group of people smiling in front of a sign displaying the opening hours of Divis & Black Mountain.
Magz Louise (she/her) retweeted
What will the @NIA_PAC report on mental health findings be, due today, on lack of data and value for money?
Read our submission here👉nlb.ie/blog/2024-05-no-evide…
ALT Two speech bubbles, one reads "‘…not in the position to publish mental health data sets, incl. waiting times, as data is not currently available or of sufficient quality’ Health Minister Robin Swann 11 March 24" and the other reads "‘’confident that those figures are accurate’ Mr. Peter May, Perm. Sec. DoH, referring to mental health waiting times 25 April 24".
Magz Louise (she/her) retweeted
“If we can’t dance, we don’t want to be part of your mental health revolution.”
Thanks to Mayte, Orla & @TheMACBelfast for a wonderful #NewScript Flamenco & Yoga workshop 🧘
Join our collective New Script dance here 👉 nlb.ie/take-action/new-scrip…
Magz Louise (she/her) retweeted
Congrats to @nimhafest on the launch of their 2024 Festival! We were delighted to share our #NewScript Travelling Poetry Apothecary with everyone.
Looking forward to being part of this year’s exciting programme!
Register for our workshop here 👉 bit.ly/4aU6Cbz
Magz Louise (she/her) retweeted
Today is #PoetryDayIrl
Words Strong Enough to Help 💜
If you are near the @KCbelfast between 12-2pm, stop by our Travelling Poetry Apothecary for a chat, a cuppa & a poem or two 🍵 🖊️
Find out more here 👇🏼
bit.ly/4aQPe7r
#NewScript for Mental Health
Magz Louise (she/her) retweeted
Watch @OrlaithiF_MLA speak about the #NewScript for Mental Health
She highlights the reality that mental health care is happening too late for those people who have lost their lives and commends the work of #NewScript activists, campaigning 'night and day' for change.
Magz Louise (she/her) retweeted
Watch @MarkHDurkan speak about the #NewScript for Mental Health & the importance of MLAs listening to and acting on the voices of lived experience 🙏🏼
Read more here 👇
bit.ly/475OKrI
Magz Louise (she/her) retweeted
'Trauma and human rights violations are inextricably linked, requiring a political and social movement to bring change.'
Read more here: nlb.ie/blog/2023-06-imaginin…
Magz Louise (she/her) retweeted
Violence against women has made the headlines again this week and we got figures today from the police that show in the last decade, 42 women have been murdered by men in Northern Ireland. In the year to March, more than 22,000 domestic abuse crimes were recorded.
Magz Louise (she/her) retweeted
Looking forward to taking part in @agendani roundtable discussion on mental health with @karenhall2020 @pipsproject929 and others.
How do we heal?
Where do we start?
Vital conversations for all of us
Listen to Séan Fitz’s #NewScript for Mental Health
youtu.be/sm1oXluPk4g
Magz Louise (she/her) retweeted
It's #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek
This yr's theme is anxiety.
Good to see @mentalhealth highlight how inequalities like financial worries, social isolation, social pressures & discrimination all cause anxiety.
#NewScript for Mental Health sees this every day... a thread 1/
Magz Louise (she/her) retweeted
#NewScript for Mental Health was thrilled to bring our brand new Travelling Apothecary to meet with this powerful group of women, as part of the recent #PoetryDayIRL
Values of connection, compassion community and choice in everything they do. 👏👏
Magz Louise (she/her) retweeted
The award winning #Start360 Engage Women's service works with #women who have been in custody or had contact with criminal justice, supporting growth, development & reconnection. This is the amazing team who work creatively, holistically and passionately for Engage Women💛🖤
Magz Louise (she/her) retweeted
Still buzzing from the launch of #NewScript for Mental Health's Travelling Apothecary for @PoetryDay_IRL
So humbling to see how the inspirational young people in @YouthActionNI all had each others' backs.
#NewScript for Mental Health
Get involved bit.ly/40LZVCq
Magz Louise (she/her) retweeted
Thanks to @chefpaulrankin
for joining #NewScript for Mental Health for the launch of our Travelling Apothecary with its Words Strong Enough to Heal 🙏
Delighted to be part of @PoetryDay_IRL once again this year.
Find out more here 👇
bit.ly/40LZVCq
Magz Louise (she/her) retweeted
Huge credit goes to to Magz Gibney @createhopeni @greenmyopiceyes, Iryna Kennedy @TheBarofNI & Daina Rudusa @NobelWomen.
Your warmth, openness and determination (on the panel and in your day-to-day work) made the post-doc conversation flow.
