How to host Twitter spaces

Author: Альона ꑭ Шевченко
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🧠 Why you should NOT host Twitter Spaces involving Ukrainians if your ability to empathise with them & maintain composure is impaired - 🧵

cc: @MindfulWebz ukraine-dao.notion.site: Mindful Webz - Mental Health Support

❗️First of all, I'd like to mention:

✨ I'm very familiar with mental health struggles

✨have been through therapy

✨have been on medication to treat Generalised Anxiety Disorder, but haven't been taking it for a long time

🧠 People often tell me that some hosts of Spaces "for 🇺🇦" that are abusive to me & other 🇺🇦 people suffer from mental health issues

My position is very simple:

❗️If that prevents them from being respectful to 🇺🇦 people, they shouldn't host such Spaces.

Easy as that.

📝 In this interview with @samuel_haig of @DefiantNews from 02 March '22 I talked about the need to support 🇺🇦 mental health as much as possible

❤️ I'm very grateful that Masha then stepped up to lead @Ukraine_DAO @MindfulWebz that provides this type of help.

💞 On weekends we host Spaces (not recorded) for people to share their feelings and discuss mental health

✨ Next one is on Sat 16 July.

📆 If you subscribe to our Events, a reminder will appear in your calendar automatically.

ukraine-dao.notion.site: Events

I've also had many breakdowns over the last 4 months

❤️ I was fortunate to have caring people, including our team member & my close friend @garbanzo0813, who was there for me when I felt like I didn't want to be in such a horrible, indifferent world anymore.

✨ I'm also dealing with a disability that's extremely difficult to manage and means that every time I go to bed, I don't know for sure if I'll wake up again

✨ Not exactly the right person to listen about how someone's 🧠 issue makes it ok for them to abuse me - it doesn't.

cc: @maksymeristavi

We talk about this issue all the time. Including this morning, lol.

I love you, Maks ❤️🖤