Peer Support Space

Looking for a space to decompress tommorow night in a low energy, neurodivergent and lgbtq+ welcoming space?

Register at: CozyCrafting.Eventbrite.com

Join us for our next in person Cozy Crafting event, hosted by and organized by our Creative Arts Organizer , this Tuesday, September 5th at 6:30PM!

New friends always welcome. These are free low energy spaces to make some friends while doing crafts together! No artistic experience required. Each month we provide materials for a featured craft and also always have coloring books. Please feel free to bring your own craft if more cozy. We’re just excited to spend some low energy, nonjudgemental space with one another.

Cozy Crafting takes places the 1st Tuesday of each month at 8369 La Amistad Cove Fern Park, FL 32730 from 6:30-8pm.

For questions or accessibility needs please email Quincy (he/him) at [email protected]

Join our Daily Communal Gathering (DCG) Zoom call on November 1st at 6pm EST for a screening of the Wiz! Email [email protected] for the link to join!

Join us tonight Monday, October 28th at the LGBT Center Orlando, 6:30PM to discuss the topic “Labels”!

Where is language helpful on an individual and/or more expansive level within the LGBTQ+ community? How can labels be harmful? In what ways may labels help us find others with shared lived experience? In what ways could it make it harder? What do you want to discuss around labels? We look forward to joining with new and existing friends!

Butterfly Talks is a free peer-led support space for q***r women. We welcome other underrepresented genders within the LGBTQ+ community including trans friends and those with genders outside the binary. This is a nonjudgemental space to make friends and build a support system.

In this space we:
🌈 Respect and validate every sexual/romantic orientation and gender.
🌈 Are welcoming and work together to make new members feel welcome.
🌈 Are non-judgmental and uplifting.
🌈 Are not a dating service; we are friends and allow ourselves to be vulnerable.
🌈 Give every member an equal chance to share if wanted.

For any questions, or accessibility needs, please email Yasmin (she/they) at [email protected].

Register at: butterflytalks.eventbrite.com

Happy Asexual Awareness Week to all of our ace friends! 🖤🩶🤍💜

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To and from the LGBTQ+ community, here are our messages to one another. 🫶🏽 Please take what resonates and leave the rest.

Thank you so much to all who came by to learn about our resources, to share your messages, to make stress balls, or to just share some space and pride with us.

We have so much love for each and every one of you and look forward to whenever our paths cross next!

You are always welcomed and never pressured to our spaces. Learn more at peersupportspace.org

Join us on Zoom next week on 10/24 from 6:30-7:30pm for Survivors of the Family Policing System! Register at bit.ly/survivorspss We keep us safe! This is an abolitionist centered space. We are a non-clinical, peer-led space facilitated by survivors of the family policing system for fellow survivors (18+). We exist to lower feelings of isolation and to build a support system with other survivors through dialogue, community building, resource sharing, etc.

Join us October 16th for Lotus - a for Q***r Asian (expansive umbrella term, we know) community members. This month’s topic will be “lepoards eating my face.” The title of the meeting is a nod to the idea of unintended consequences—the “leopards” of this metaphor being the very policies some might have supported, only to realize they negatively affect us later. As q***r Asians, we also face unique intersections of marginalization, and this discussion will examine how policy shifts like these can ripple through marginalized communities in ways we might not expect. This discussion will revolve around the ironic consequences of policies and decisions that harm Asian American who may have supported them, such as the result of SCOTUS’s overturning affirmative action in colleges last year. Come join us as we discuss about why this happens and how we can prevent “lepoards” from eating our faces.

Join us October 16th for Lotus - a for Q***r Asian (expansive umbrella term, we know) community members. This month’s topic will be "lepoards eating my face." The title of the meeting is a nod to the idea of unintended consequences—the "leopards" of this metaphor being the very policies some might have supported, only to realize they negatively affect us later. As q***r Asians, we also face unique intersections of marginalization, and this discussion will examine how policy shifts like these can ripple through marginalized communities in ways we might not expect. This discussion will revolve around the ironic consequences of policies and decisions that harm Asian American who may have supported them, such as the result of SCOTUS's overturning affirmative action in colleges last year. Come join us as we discuss about why this happens and how we can prevent "lepoards" from eating our faces.

Hey Friends! Sending care to our Florida-based friends, hoping you all weathered the storm alright. Wanted to give a warm welcome for anyone wanting a space to check in on one another to join our Daily Communal Gathering today at 12PM, or any other day, you are always welcome and never pressured!

These are free nonclinical community gatherings that are peer led spaces to build support systems and hold nonjudgemental space with one another.

We welcome anyone 18+, living anywhere in the world, to join us at 12PM or at 6PM (EST), Mondays-Saturdays! Never any pressure to share. Cameras are optional and communicating via chat if preferred is welcomed!

These are free spaces for support. All we ask is we work together to uphold our comfort agreement, reviewed at the start of each call, to create an affirming space for one another.

You can send us a DM for the link to join or email Mary (she/her) for the link or any accessibility needs.

Join us on Friday, October 25 from 10 AM-12:30 PM for our annual Brunch! Boo! And a Movie, Too! sober Halloween event! Free registration is required! Visit pssbrunchboo.eventbrite.com to register.

🎃 We’ll be enjoying some tasty breakfast treats and screening The Nightmare Before Christmas! 💀🎄

COSTUMES ENCOURAGED 👻 We’ll have some super cute Halloween squishmallows available for winners of the contest (take a peek at the eventbrite event description for contest categories)!

We will be having sections of the theatre where masks are required, and sections where masks are optional!

Hello Friends! Our in person community gatherings, Take Care of YOU and Be Kind to Your Mind, will be cancelled this week due to the expected storm.

Stay safe friends. Please feel welcomed to our virtual spaces for extra support this week. 🫶🏽

Bringing back our storm anxiety tips! Calling on other storm anxious cuties - what has been helpful for you or what words of support do you have for others feeling anxious right now? 🥺



Art credit: .jude

We wanted to take a moment to learn about bi+ communities from bi+ communities. Let's continue this convo. Inviting those with lived experience, and those with lived experience only. If you are or are exploring being bisexual, pansexual, sexually fluid, or are otherwise multiple gender loving - comment what YOU wish people knew.

Gentle reminder for today ✨

Join us tonight for If You Give a Trans Person a Book Club at 6:30-8PM EST! We will be discussing chapters 4-5 from the webcomic “what happens next”.

Discussion Schedule:

what happens next (webcomic)
8/19: Chapters 1-3 (“dog names” - “no matter what”)
9/16: Chapters 4-5 (“victim impact statement” - “you’ll all be sorry”)

Link to Webcomic: https://whathappensnext.webcomic.ws/

This book club is for anyone who is trans/transgender, non-binary, gender q***r, gender fluid, gender non-conforming, gender questioning/curious, or is otherwise part of the gender-diverse community.

You must email us to receive the link to join us at this meeting. Even if you register/RSVP for this meeting, you must still email us to receive the link if you haven’t previously attended. Please send an email to [email protected] with the subject line “Trans Book Club Zoom Link”.
Learn more about this group at: www.basicallywonderful.online/transbookclub

If you are unable to purchase the book we’re reading, please email [email protected] to discuss scholarship opportunities. If you would like to donate towards this scholarship fund, please visit www.basicallywonderful.online/transbookclub

This space was made possible through a partnership between Peer Support Space and Basically Wonderful.

Learn more about Peer Support Space at peersupportspace.org
Learn more about Basically Wonderful at basicallywonderful.online



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Just a couple of theydy bugs having a lil’ respite together. ✨

Wish this was you? Request a stay at Eva’s Casita at tinyurl.com/RespiteStay

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Yall! Check out this resource (link in their bio and also typed below) put together of Peer Support Space and other free virtual peer offerings!

bit.ly/big-ass-virtual-peer-calendar

Our Survivors of the Family Policing System group relaunches on October 10th @ 6:30pm EST on Zoom!

This is an anti-carceral space BY and FOR survivors. Please register by visiting survivoroffamilypolicing.eventbrite.com or by emailing [email protected]

Just some kippens laying in flowers for a timeline cleanse 🌷🌸🌿🐱

It’s so darn cool we get to exist at the same time! ⭐️

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Join us for our next in person Cozy Crafting event organized and hosted by Tuesday September 3rd @ 6:30pm to make Tote Bags.

New friends always welcome. These are low energy spaces to make some friends while doing crafts together! Each month we provide materials for a featured craft and also always have coloring books. Please feel free to bring your own craft if more cozy. We're just excited to spend some low energy, nonjudgemental space with one another.

Cozy Crafting takes places the 1st Tuesday of each month at 8369 La Amistad Cove Fern Park, FL 32730 from 6:30-8pm.

A massive thank you to over 60 volunteers that showed out today to create care packages for our trans community members from strangers that care!

The world, particularly Florida, may be hostile right now but there’s a lot of love for y’all. We’ve officially passed over 500 care packages made from these volunteer days. We give out plushies, flags, pins, art kits, essential oil, fidgets, and most loved - handwritten letters.

A special shout out to for sponsoring our event and for partnering with on this volunteer day again. Thank you .jude, , , .hill and all organizers and volunteers that were a part of tonight.

Email [email protected] to join future volunteer days and [email protected] to sponsor the materials for our next set of trans joy care packages.

Didn’t get to come but want to contribute? Mail handwritten letters to:

Peer Support Space, Inc
P.O. Box 677032
Orlando, FL 32867