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@asylummagazine.bsky.social poetry editor, Janine Booth, reading survivor poetry (poems by Peter Campbell, survivor activist and poet)
At the launch of a book on Peter Campbell's life and work
The government has been told to do far more to place people with learning difficulties and autistic people at the heart of its controversial Mental Health Act reforms.
#MentalHealthAct
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i really love the global reach of Asylum!
Two members of @asylummagazine.bsky.social Collective speaking @ event celebrating 40 years of Asylum in Athens, Greece on 18th April
The focus was Asylum as a space of resistance, reflection & dialogue
The event was organised by a Greek mental health activist group Asylum is collaborating with ❤️
www.engender.org.uk/news/blog/wh...
Interesting blog where @suzypuss.bsky.social makes the case for integrated (mental and physical) women's health
Two members of the @asylummagazine.bsky.social editorial group will be speaking at at event celebrating the 40 years of Asylum in Athens, Greece, on Saturday 18 April ❤️
Truly awful story. Would the murders have been prevented if Axel Rudakubana’s parents had been held criminally responsible? I doubt it.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Asking preadolescents about suicide does not increase suicidal thoughts 🧒
A 12-month study of 8–12 year olds found no evidence of harm, even in those already at higher risk.
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#SuicidePrevention #ChildMentalHealth
**CALL OUT** I’m looking to gather experiences of disabled people who have been criticised or harassed by the public about their Blue Badge or Motability car etc when out.
Click on link to fill in our form. Please do share to reach as many people as possible. www.the-guardian.com/world/2026/a...
This event looks really interesting
Thank you for your thoughts on the blog based on the nsun report 🙏 🤗
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This is the full report by @nsunnews.bsky.social on the engagement of people with lived experience of madness and distress with the media
A really important read. Worth noting if you're encouraging story sharing through research, outreach, activism or charity, whether or not the media's involved.
Continually shocks me how little consideration is made past getting people to share stories about what may happen to them as a consequence.
The reality is that what the DWP deem to be "non permanent" will end up being permanent & possibly life threatening if the £ needed to cover the additional costs of disability, aids, support & additional healthcare is cut. And the extra cost will need to be met by NHS & Social Care.
🌱 Culturally inclusive parenting programme benefits UK families in deprived urban areas
RCT of 674 diverse parents: Strengthening Families, Strengthening Communities improved wellbeing & parent-child relationships at modest cost.
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#MentalHealth #Parenting
Autistic Mental Health Conference 2026!
Until 31st March 15% off early-bird offer!
We will start announcing speakers over the next week or so; please keep watching this space!
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#autisticmentalhealthconference #ActuallyAutistic #autism #autistic #mentalhealth
Hi, my name is Ahana. My essay is called “The Politics of Anti-Sanity.” My intention with this essay is to expand Mad critique and politics beyond a focus on psychiatry as a structure of power. I still believe criticism and politics that center on the experiences of Mad people in psy-services are very valuable and important. Such work and advocacy have propelled our movement far. However, if we seek a wider politics that works across social and cultural locations, we must question the larger context within which psychiatry is situated, that is, the historical conditions of sanity. Sanity or reason predates psychiatry by hundreds of years. In my view, psychiatry is a means through which sanity asserts its power over certain individuals. It is an enterprise that concretizes, in specific locations, the colonial assertions of sanity over all our lives. Sanity has extensive ways of concretizing its power that can’t be reduced to psychiatry or psychology. I want to focus on social life, which psy-disciplines shape and police, and on the ways social life is constructed and practiced as ordinary people mimic and influence the practices of psychiatry and psychology
Anti-Sanity shares some resemblance to a concept developed in Crip Theory called “compulsory able-bodiedness,” which itself is derived from a queer idea of “compulsory heterosexuality.” Sanity is a compulsion and imperative. Everyone must be sane, and if they are not, the terror of the world befalls them to either force them into being sane or to eliminate them. Sanity is asserted as the prerequisite for being a human being worthy of life and even for having any presence in society at all. Sanity constitutes “human nature.” What happens to those people, Mad people, who are thus excluded from human nature? Everyone seems to talk extensively about the harm madness poses to ourselves, others, and society. However, why is sanity elided from discussion and thought? Why is it presumed to be good and desirable? Why is it presumed to be innocent and harmless, while madness is presumed to be risky, harmful, and dangerous? I argue that sanity is a form of power, not a well-adjusted attribute of people. It governs people. It tells them who they should be, what they should be, how they should feel, what they should think, how they should act, how they should relate—how every aspect of their social lives should appear and manifest. Its “should-ness” demonstrates that it is a normative social power that compels people to conform to idealized ways of being and doing. I advocate for Mad people to identify, question, and combat the ways it materializes as a force in our lives and how it wages violent war against those of us who don’t comply or deviate from its dominance.
the cover of the spring 2026 issue of Asylum magazine. The title: Protest is the purest form of love in a world that insists on its own sabotage. Stop Palantir!
the table of contents of the spring 2026 issue of Asylum Magazine.
for my essay, “The Politics of Anti-Sanity,” in @asylummagazine.bsky.social, these were my planned remarks at the launch! anti-sanity will inaugurate a tradition of mad critique and politics that expands its sight beyond psy-services to the wider dominance of sanity and reason in social life. 1/2
