HEL SPANDLER, a Professor of Mental Health, thinks that the important and compassionate question to ask someone in psychic or emotional distress is, “What matters to you?” Hear Hel April 25th: buff.ly/KVFWYbQ
#MadStudies #AcademicChatter #Empowerment #DiversityEquityInclusion #HealthJustice
The MAD PASTS, MAD PRESENCE CONFERENCE at the University of Victoria APRIL 28-29, with activists, scholars, artists, and survivors. Register: buff.ly/wj8gcfE
This is a FREE EVENT. Spaces are limited for in person but wide open online!
#Madhistory #MadStudies #Dishist #AcademicChatter #HealthJustice
The award-winning Appleby Blue is everything that an institutional care home usually isn't. Its local, full of light ad gardens, and has a cool name that doesn’t patronize its residents.#Institution #Historymatters #Wellness #DiversityEquityInclusion #SystemChange #Aging #Ageing #Caring #Housing
Symbolizing harmony and reconciliation, Nikka Yuko Garden honour Japanese contributions to the community of Lethbridge, no small thing 25 years after 2,000 plus Japanese Canadians were forcibly relocated to isolated sugar beet work camps in the area. #Historymatters #Recouncilation #Community
A long tradition links this tarot card to madness, as a search for spiritual knowledge and new ways of being. A Fool may be wise.
Reversed, the card symbolizes chaos, folly, lack of direction and judgement – think current US president.#CallMeCrazy #HealingJourney #SelfHelp #DiversityEquityInclusion
822 Geary is a comfortable San Francisco urgent care clinic for people in #MentalHealth crisis with voluntary admission and medical staff 24/7. Clients can rest, do laundry, shower, get basic medical care, and connect to long term solutions.
#CommunityMentalHealth #Empowerment #SystemChange #Equity
The book and film BRAZILIAN HOLOCAUST (Holocausto Brasileiro) tell the horrific tale of Barbacena psych hospital where people who were Black, homosexual, disabled, born out of wedlock, or political activists were held in deathly conditions.#Madhistory #Institution #HistPsych #Dishist #HealthJustice
EVIANCE helped develop Canada’s first interdisciplinary Master of Disability Studies, establish the first Research Chair in Disability Studies, found the Disability Information Network, and launch Disability People’s International. LEARN MORE: buff.ly/eNznuc8 #Dishist #DisabilityAwareness #Advocate
BC researcher and artist Katarina Thorsen uses whimsical imagery and an exquisite colour palette to tell the dark and tragic story of Joseph O’Dwyer, medicated, shocked and subject to a lobotomy at Riverview Hospital, .#Madhistory #Institution #HumanRights #CdnHistory #HistPsych #HistoryMatters
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The MAD PASTS, MAD PRESENCE CONFERENCE is taking place at the University of Victoria APRIL 28-29, bringing together activists, scholars, artists, and survivors to reflect on the mad movement and its legacies. A FREE EVENT
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Join the MAD PASTS, MAD PRESENCE CONFERENCE at the University of Victoria APRIL 28-29, bringing together activists, scholars, artists, and survivors to reflect on the #MadMovement and its legacies. FREE buff.ly/aBJoaT4 In person / online.
#Madhistory #HistPsych #MadStudies #SurvivorCulture
Read Wipond’s Substack that deftly sums up the radical differences between the Italian system of non-coercive community mental health centers (CMHCs) and American facilities with the same name. buff.ly/vEdB3fX
#Madhistory #MadStudies #BigPharma #SystemChange #HealthJustice #HumanRights
Vancouver Art Gallery is launching an ART OF WELLBEING LAB, a space for all to come together and create art. #Wellness #Mentalhealth #Empowerment #HealingJourney #SelfHelp #Voice #SystemChange #Inequity #Decolonize #Indigenous #FirstNations #2SLGBTQIA #BIPoC #Feminist #Artwork #Art #ArtMatters
PHOENIX RISING was a brave mad Canadian magazine. Now mad historian Geoffrey Reaume has a book chapter about this key mad project in The Cultural Heritage of Psychiatry and Its Literary Transformations, eds K. Röder and C. Wächter.#Madhistory #MadStudies #Dishist #HumanRights #HealthJustice #Madart
Care is not jail.
Read CBC’s HEALTHY DEBATE must-read piece about vulnerable seniors with cognitive impairments ending up in jail. buff.ly/jzROK2b#Ment... #Stigma #Advocate #DisabilityAwareness #CommunityMentalHealth #HumanRights #DiversityEquityInclusion #SystemChange #HealthJustice #Aging
Soft eugenics include cuts to people living with disabilities, leaving them eating inadequate food and in substandard accommodation. Soft eugenics are about cruelty, contempt, erasure.#Mentalhealth #Stigma #DisabilityAwareness #HumanRights #HealthJustice #Trauma #Injustice #Inequity
Robert Jay Lifton sojourned in the darkest corners of humanity, and the stories he brought back reshaped the American perspective. His last book was SURVIVING OUR CATASTROPHES, a meditation on the collective power of survivors. #HistoryMatters #Activism #Writer #Survivor #HumanRights #Trauma
The Institute for the Development of Human Arts (IDHA) is about sustained system change and honouring lived experience. buff.ly/9UEe4ae #Onlinelearning #Wellness #Mentalhealth #Stigma #Survivor #DisabilityAwareness #Empowerment #HumanRights #DiversityEquityInclusion #SystemChange #HealthJustice
UK's Centre for Mad Culture wants to know about your connection with the mad movement and what future events might engage you!!! Complete their short fully anonymous survey and ENTER TO WIN a £30 book token buff.ly/PtNeX4e
#MadStudies #Activism #Advocate #CallMeCrazy #PeerSupport
#Empowerment
In West Africa Bluemind Foundation’s HEAL BY HAIR initiative has trained 400-plus hairdressers to act as “mental health ambassadors.” buff.ly/CcGw0yk
#Survivorculture #Wellness #Mentalhealth #Stigma #Advocate #PeerSupport #Empowerment #HealingJourney #SystemChange #Caregiving #Trauma #Feminist
“BATSHIT takes an axe to the lies we are sold about female madness.”
Coming to Vancouver’s beloved Cultch 11-15 February! Tickets and info: buff.ly/VsdULLQ
#Madhistory #Institution #Historymatters #WmnsHist #wmhist #HistPsych #MadStudies #WomeninPsych #Mentalhealth #Stigma
#HumanRights
At the FORGE, skilled tradespeople with lived experience of #MentalHealth differences are learning #PeerSupport skills in an empathetic, non-clinical, strengths-based approach. Interested in learning more or donating to the project? buff.ly/m1XmVw4
#Wellness #Stigma #Addictions #SystemChange #Caring
Historian Mike Rembis & artist/activist Matt Bodett talk about the emergence of the MAD MOVEMENT on JUDI'S ROOM. WHEN: Wed, Feb 4, 2026 6pm EST 5pm CT 4pm MT 3 PM PCT
ZOOM: buff.ly/eRono5f #Madhistory #Historymatters #HistPsych #MadStudies #Stigma #Activism #Survivor #MadArt #Decolonize #2SLGBTQIA
New research from King's College London found that taking in an art show heightens positive emotions and diminishes stress and the body’s inflammatory responses, findings echoed in a recent review in Nature Magazine. So Canada's lack of support for the arts is both a cultural and a health error.
Madness Canada is pleased to announce a new special issue of DISABILITY STUDIES QUARTERLY on MAD METHODS with Guest Editors Efrat Gold and Michael Rembis and lots of Canadian content! #MadStudies #AcademicChatter #Mentalhealth #DisabilityAwareness
#HumanRights #Madart #DiversityEquityInclusion
Isabella Kulak is an Anishinaabe from Cote First Nation and a quiet cultural icon. Shamed for wearing a home-sewn ribbon skirt to school, her story and actions drove support a National Ribbon Skirt Day. Mad Can honours Isabella and her family. #Decolonize #Indigenous #FirstNations #ArtMatters
This team is seeking interview participants for a study of the experiences of Two Spirit, transgender, non-binary, otherwise gender expansive people who have received medical misinformation from a clinician. Use the QR code or email greyson.lab@ubc.ca #MadStudies #AcademicChatter #2SLGBTQIA #Trans
PRISM creates an environment for recovery by providing wraparound services for deeply psychotic homeless people. Adopted across Canada, PRISM could put a real dent in chronic homelessness among this vulnerable cohort. #Wellness #Mentalhealth #SystemChange #HealthJustice #Homelessness #Housing
Life Histories in Mind buff.ly/WZipDJL
Manchester Metropolitan University | Tuesday 21st July 2026
Call for Papers, deadline – 15 January 2026
Send a c.300-word abstract and 5 keywords, along with a short biography of each author to r.ball@mmu.ac.uk and r.ellis@mmu.ac.uk
Scholars, artists, and activists - send 350-word submissions by 15 January on Mad Pasts / Mad Presence and how to use the efforts of our elders to reshape and rethink how we “deal” with and conceptualize madness. For queries, submissions, or to volunteer – use email: victoria.madstudies@gmail.com