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

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

“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

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

La Marr Jurelle Bruce offers profound and highly creative learnings about mad art, identity and resistance in this unruly book. #Madhistory #Survivorculture #MadStudies #AcademicChatter #Activism #DisabilityAwareness #HealingJourney #HumanRights #HealthJustice #Trauma #Injustice #Decolonize #Madart

CONFERENCE WEBSITE: buff.ly/4jHoNWz
PROPOSALS: due Friday 12 December 2025 buff.ly/3WGiWqq
CONTACT: Mila.Daskalova@glasgow.ac.uk
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Follow us for mental health events, education, places, spaces, history, and more MadnessCanada.com
#Madhistory #Onlinelearning #Survivorculture #Historymatters #Medhum #HistPsych #MadStudies #Dishist #AcademicChatter #Archive #Museum #DisabilityAwareness #Voice #Decolonize #DiversityEquityInclusion

Follow us for mental health events, education, places, spaces, history, and more! MadnessCanada.com
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Maryland's Hospital for the Negro Insane was a microcosm of evolving battles over slavery, racial integration, and civil rights. An important addition to #Asylum histories.
#Madhistory #HistPsych #MadStudies #AcademicChatter #Archivetwt #Mentalhealth #HealthJustice #Family #Trauma #Inequity #BIPoC

Follow us for mental health events, education, places, spaces, history and more!MadnessCanada.com #Madhistory #Onlinelearning #Survivorculture #Historymatters #Medhum #HistPsych #MadStudies #AcademicChatter #Archivetwt #DisabilityAwareness #Voice #Decolonize #Madart #DiversityEquityInclusion

A handful of talented, passion new board members have joined Mad Can recently, so watch out for Rachel, Allison, Kira, Essya, Peter and Tim over the next month. And stayed tuned for changes of the best kind here @MadCan
#Madhistory #MadStudies #AcademicChatter #DisabilityAwareness #Voice #Decolonize

Join this virtual panel discussion to hear about past and ongoing work to resist sanism in the university. Brought to you by #YorkU's MAD STUDIES HUB.
4:30 pm to 6:30 pm 24th September 2025 Eventbrite buff.ly/e1if1du #Madhistory #MadStudies #AcademicChatter #SystemChange #2SLGBTQIA #BIPoC

The majority of us fail to connect the dots between #MentalHealthFacilities, the #CriminalJusticeSystem, #ResidentialSchools, and places to house the elderly and those who live with a #Disabilty.
#Madhistory #Institution #CanadianHistory #Dishist #AcademicChatter #HealthJustice #Trauma #Inequity

A radical rebuttal to the global psychiatry empire that employs a vast consortium of diagnostic labels and medical regimes in response to perceived mental health “crises.”
#Madhistory #Survivorculture #HistPsych #MadStudies #Dishist #AcademicChatter #BigPharma #WomeninPsych #Activism HealthJustice

US historian Rachel Louise Moran used oral histories and archival research to chart the late 20th Century emergence of #Postpartum #Depression from the shadows of #MentalHealth.

#Madhistory #HistPsych #MadStudies #Dishist #AcademicChatter #Stigma #Activism #Advocate #PeerSupport #BIPoC #Feminist

Madness Canada is a little leery of therapists, but this one links history and politics to the need for all of us to do deep-rooted, ancestral, emotional work.
#Madhistory #HistPsych #MadStudies #AcademicChatter #HealingJourney #Emotions #HealthJustice #Trauma #Decolonize #2SLGBTQIA #BIPoC #Feminist

Agnes Richter, a seamstress who embroidered her emotional autobiography into her institutional uniform, represents the vital role of mad voices and visions in the healing process - a conviction of psychologist Gail Hornstein.
#Madhistory #Survivorculture #HistPsych #MadStudies #PeerSupport #Madart

Ed Janiszewski's work at the Lakeshore Psychiatric Hospital Cemetery exemplifies the transformative power of grassroots history. 1,511 people buried in the cemetery, including infants, 30 #Indigenous people and 23 World War 1 vets, are no longer ignored.
#Madhistory #CdnHist #Injustice #Trauma

DISABILITY SAVES THE WORLD podcast at disabilitysavestheworld.podbean.com/page/2/

#Madhistory #Onlinelearning #MadStudies #Dishist #AcademicChatter #DisabilityStudies #DisabilityAwareness #HumanRights #DiversityEquityInclusion #SystemChange #Decolonize #Indigenous #FirstNations #2SLGBTQIA #BIPoC

No cherries” “I wish to read”
Incarcerated in a German asylum in 1895, Agnes Richter used her institutional uniform jacket as a “diary,” painstakingly sewing her story into every inch of the fabric.
#Madhistory #Survivorculture #Institution #wmhist #HistPsych #MadStudies #Dishist #Museum #Madart

Listen to Erika Dyck discuss the pathbreaking 2017 book MANAGING MADNESS: WEYBURN MENTAL HOSPITAL AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF PSYCHIATRIC CARE IN CANADA.
open.spotify.com/episode/4axg...
#Madhistory #MadCan #Onlinelearning #Survivorculture #Institution #HistPsych #MadStudies #Dishist #AcademicChatter

Founded in 1987, OUR VOICE/NOTRE VOIX is bilingual magazine from New Brunswick that focuses on wellness, madness and all the spaces in between. Thank you OUR VOICE/NOTRE VOIX. Madness Canada salutes you!
#Madhistory #Survivorculture #MadStudies #Activism #Advocate #CallMeCrazy #Empowerment #Voice

The Museum of Mental Health funds up to $5,000 for archival research on Canadian mental health and mad history. Check in October for details: museumofmentalhealth.ca
@palmfoot @kreyzee_film #Madhistory #Survivorculture #Voice #CanadianHistory #Historymatters #CdnHist #MadStudies #Dishist #HistPsych

The Museum of Mental Health gives up to $5,000 for archival research projects on Canadian mental health and mad history. Look in October: museumofmentalhealth.ca
#Madhistory #CanadianHistory #Historymatters #Medhum #CdnHist #MedHist #HistMed #WmnsHist #wmhist #HistPsych #MadStudies #Dishist #Funding

IRIT: Madness Canada LOVES YOU!!! 💖

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Read The Story: buff.ly/uGX31UN
Visit the Madness Canada’s Movie Monday Archive: buff.ly/mlBEHAZ
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Visit REMEMBERING HURONIA for photos, records, interviews and art curated to help survivors, family, and others understand this history of injustice. buff.ly/xWWm1l1

#Madhistory #Survivorculture #Institution #CanadianHistory #CdnHist #HumanRights #Dishist #Archive #Activism #Survivor #Disability

SPECIAL ISSUE: International Mad Studies Journal CFP
● Final submissions due: June 1, 2025 ● Special issue ready for publication: Fall 2025/Winter 2026 ● Visit IMS website for more information imsj.org
#trans #transgender #transrights #Madhistory #MadStudies #Dishist #AcademicChatter #Decolonize

Merrick Pelling creates and delivers transformative social justice-based curriculum for adult learners with direct service backgrounds in health care and social services.

#Madhistory #MadStudies #AcademicChatter #Mentalhealth #Stigma #Activism #HumanRights #2SLGBTQIA #BIPoC