Meet IGLYO Member: My Rainbow Institute

About

My Rainbow Institute

My Rainbow Institute is led by a fully queer team of social workers, psychologists, mental health professionals, students, activists and other profiles focusing on mental health, LGBTQIA+ topics and neurodiversity.

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They facilitate and co-create community support based on transfeminist principles through trainings for volunteers to provide peer-to-peer psychosocial support, counselling for people with fewer opportunities, conversation groups, street actions and street work, non-formal education activities, recreational and sports activities, leisure events like board games evenings, the creation of educational materials like videos about mental health topics, articles and handbooks, original board games and international youth activities.

Their mission

My Rainbow Institue aims to co-create a world where queer people are not only in a good state of mental health, but also have no systemic obstacles worsening this. The principle they base their work on is holistic security through the lens of intersectional feminism: They promote and work for the rights of queer people by addressing and dismantling oppressive structures that hinder them.

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They also provide peer-to-peer support (where friends and family cannot properly provide support, and medical institutions and counselling services are not as involved in the person’s life as would be necessary to make long-lasting change), and organise street actions to directly address topics that 'affect us, for ourselves, about ourselves and for the community and catalysing social change'.

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My Rainbow Institue's mission is to centre a transfeminist perspective in social justice and mental health issues in Slovenia with a grassroots, bottom-up approach.

Their mission

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My Rainbow Institue's mission is to centre a transfeminist perspective in social justice and mental health issues in Slovenia with a grassroots, bottom-up approach.

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opportunities

Event

Activate Youth Camp for LGBTQIA+ Youth and Allies

26 July - 6 August 2023,

in Ommen, Netherlands

Event

IGLYO Annual Members' Conference Ljubljana 2024

24-28 October 2024

in Ljubljana, Solvenia

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