IRL Infoshop

Friends of IRL: next Mad Chats - Sunday May 24th ✨🌿

Where: Reservoir

Friends of IRL: next Mad Chats - Sunday May 24th ✨🌿

Where: Reservoir

From friends of IRL: Next Mad Chats Sunday April 19th 2-4pm ✨🌿

Where: Reservoir
5 minutes walk from Ruthven train station / bus stop, and street parking available. Masks encouraged.
Address will be sent to people attending!

This is a radical therapy group for those of us seen as ‘crazy’. The group hopes to be a non-pathologising space that explores and reflects on our skills and know-how, acts of resistance, what is important to us and our connections with others that builds solidarity beyond the labels of crisis.

Peer facilitated using narrative practices. We are interested in anti-capitalist peer DIY support groups - outside of the not-for-profit industrial complex. RSVP via emoji response or [email protected] if you would like or arrive as you are. Come early, come late - snacks and tea provided. Email us to be added to the announcements only signal group.

On the unceded land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. Sovereignty never ceded.

Friends of IRL - Next mad chats Sunday March 1st 2-4pm ✨🌿

Meeting in cosy location in Brunswick East!
1 minute walk from 96 tram and bus stop, there is street parking around. Accessible by stairs in elevator. Address will be sent to people!

This is a radical therapy group for those of us seen as ‘crazy’. The group hopes to be a non-pathologising space that explores and reflects on our skills and know-how, acts of resistance, what is important to us and our connections with others that builds solidarity beyond the labels of crisis.

Peer facilitated using narrative practices. We are interested in anti-capitalist peer DIY support groups - outside of the not-for-profit industrial complex. RSVP via emoji response or [email protected] if you would like or arrive as you are. Come early, come late - snacks and tea provided. Email us to be added to the announcements only signal group.

On the unceded land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. Sovereignty never ceded.

Friends are fundraising for a prison solidarity project. First round of merch sold out and next round is up for pre-orders!

Freckles Fire to the Prisons - Prison Solidarity Project Fundraiser

Freckles is a q***r narrative therapy group inside two women’s prisons in so-called Victoria. For seven years, this group has existed as a prison solidarity project - not funded or bound by state government or not-for-profit requirements. That makes it a rare space - one not shaped by the mandates of programs designed to manage or monitor people.

Prisons are designed to isolate - separating people from their communities, from each other, and from the outside world. We understand prisons as institutions of punishment and control - mechanisms of dominator culture that further oppress those on the margins. The dominant narratives around punishment dehumanise incarcerated people and reinforce the idea that they deserve to be there. Because of this, we are especially committed to building and sustaining connections - between people inside, their loved ones, and the communities they are part of or wish to be part of.

Poem on the merch is titled A world without prisons looks like, and is written by Freckles participants on the inside.

We’re seeking to raise $5000 to fund books, food, art supplies, training, transport and post-release support such as material support, community connection and events.

For us this work isn’t just about support - it is about disrupting the isolation and dehumanisation of prison. It is about radical solidarity, and recognising the expertise of incarcerated people in their own healing and resistance.

Please support a self-funded grassroots prison solidarity and community therapy project!

T-shirts $40
Hoodies $80
Tote $25

Use code PICKUP to avoid postage costs and pick-up from Fairfield, VIC 3078

Screen printed by .
Shirts and hoodies are Gildan.

Link in bio.

http://incendiumradicallibrarypress.bigcartel.com/product/freckles-fire-to-the-prisons

Friends of IRL: Next mad chats (creative theme) Sunday February 15th 3-5pm 🎨🌿

Meeting in cosy location in Brunswick East!
1 minute walk from 96 tram and bus stop, there is street parking around. Accessible by stairs in elevator. Address will be sent to people!

This is a radical therapy group for those of us seen as ‘crazy’. The group hopes to be a non-pathologising space that explores and reflects on our skills and know-how, acts of resistance, what is important to us and our connections with others that builds solidarity beyond the labels of crisis.

Peer facilitated using narrative practices. We are interested in anti-capitalist peer DIY support groups - outside of the not-for-profit industrial complex. RSVP via emoji response or [email protected] if you would like or arrive as you are. Come early, come late - snacks and tea provided. Email us to be added to the announcements only signal group.

On the unceded land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. Sovereignty never ceded.

Dear friends,

Please contribute what you can to help Catalyst Social Centre build, fit-out and get permits to run big events at our new home!!!

It’s an epic new space and with your help we can build some very long term infrastructure for radical, anticapitalist and anticolonial movements here in Naarm.

Thanks in advance, and please share widely. Link in bio 🦋❤️

Friends are fundraising for a prison solidarity project!

Freckles Fire to the Prisons - Prison Solidarity Project Fundraiser

Freckles is a q***r narrative therapy group inside two women’s prisons in so-called Victoria. For seven years, this group has existed as a prison solidarity project - not funded or bound by state government or not-for-profit requirements. That makes it a rare space - one not shaped by the mandates of programs designed to manage or monitor people.

Prisons are designed to isolate - separating people from their communities, from each other, and from the outside world. We understand prisons as institutions of punishment and control - mechanisms of dominator culture that further oppress those on the margins. The dominant narratives around punishment dehumanise incarcerated people and reinforce the idea that they deserve to be there. Because of this, we are especially committed to building and sustaining connections - between people inside, their loved ones, and the communities they are part of or wish to be part of.

Poem on the merch is titled A world without prisons looks like, and is written by Freckles participants on the inside.

We’re seeking to raise $5000 to fund books, food, art supplies, training, transport and post-release support such as material support, community connection and events.

For us this work isn’t just about support - it is about disrupting the isolation and dehumanisation of prison. It is about radical solidarity, and recognising the expertise of incarcerated people in their own healing and resistance.

Please support a self-funded grassroots prison solidarity and community therapy project!

T-shirts $40
Hoodies $80
Tote $25

Use code PICKUP to avoid postage costs and pick-up from Fairfield, VIC 3078

Screen printed by Gauntlet Press Screenprinting.
Shirts and hoodies are Gildan.

Link in bio.

Friends of IRL - today in middle room of 144. Mad chats Sunday February 1st 3-5pm

At Catalyst Social Centre
144 Sydney Road, Coburg

This is a monthly radical therapy group for those of us seen as ‘crazy’. The group hopes to be a non-pathologising space that explores and reflects on our skills and know-how, acts of resistance, what is important to us and our connections with others that builds solidarity beyond the labels of crisis.

Peer facilitated using narrative practices. We are interested in anti-capitalist peer DIY support groups - outside of the not-for-profit industrial complex. RSVP [email protected] if you would like or arrive as you are. Come early, come late - snacks and tea provided. Email us to be added to the announcements only signal group.

On the unceded land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. Sovereignty never ceded.

IRL Infoshop went to the print fair and exhibition today! Incredible stalls and art. Happy 10 year anniversary!!