A Tale of Two Ideologies, Part I: Critical Social Justice and Neurodiversity
By Arnold Cantu
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#CriticalSocialJustice #Neurodiversity #MentalHealth #BiomedicalModel #IdentityPolitics #CriticalPsychiatry #MadStudies
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
A Tale of Two Ideologies, Part I: Critical Social Justice and Neurodiversity
By Arnold Cantu
madintheuk.com/2026/04/a-ta...
#CriticalSocialJustice #Neurodiversity #MentalHealth #BiomedicalModel #IdentityPolitics #CriticalPsychiatry #MadStudies
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
I'm dipping my toe into #MadStudies with a particular interest in talking therapies for those with anxiety and depression, and OCD.
Any recommendations of papers/authors/books to read?
[Picture of a gorgeous old tree because why not?]
We should listen seriousiy to mad people, for, in phrases that are usually clumsy, ill-constructed. and even banal, they try to tell us of voyages of the human soul that make the wanderings of Odysseus seem no more than a Sunday's outing. They tell us of a purgatory from which none returns unscathed. They tell us of another world than this: but mostly we don't hear. because we are talking at them to assure them that they are mistaken. Sometimes, when they might make their escape. we do not heed, or even unwittingly drive them back into hell. The least we can do for these far voyagers is to hear them courteously and try to do them no harm.
From ‘On Being Mad’ by Humphry Osmond in the Saskatchewan Psychiatric Services Journal, 1952.
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#mad #madstudies #madness #madpride #onbeingmad #humphryosmond
We are really pumped to announce Lived Places Publishing 25th Collection #Madstudies: livedplacespublishing.com/mad-studies/ led by Matthew Jackman
Excited to announce that registration for the 'Figments: Madness, Health and Creativity' conference (University of Glasgow, 15 June) is now open. See the draft programme and book a space here: figments2026.eventbrite.co.uk/
#medhums #madstudies
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
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New Article in DSQ Vol 45, Iss 2
Cripping Multispecies Care: Explorations of Disability, Ableism, and Speciesism in Multispecies Homes
Julia Linares-Roake
Lauren Van Patter
Carla Rice
Erika Cudworth
Andrea Breen
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#DisabilityStudies #Disability #AnimalStudies #MadStudies
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
We highly encourage submissions about Mad Music and less researched types of neurodivergence for the Neurodivergent Music Studies Conference!
For more info and to submit an abstract, visit: theneurodivergentmusicnetwork.weebly.com/2026-virtual...
#MadStudies #Research
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
looking for recommendations of Mad folks writing about playing/being playful with Madness - in any form! especially appreciate those from BIPOC voices and those outside the academy.
#MadSky #MadStudies #DisabilityStudies
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
“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
Peer Support 101 By Lisa Archibald
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#PeerSupport #MadStudies #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs #MentalHealthPolitics
#SurvivorLed #DeMedicalise
Peer Support 101 By Lisa Archibald
madintheuk.com/2026/01/peer...
#PeerSupport #MadStudies #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs #MentalHealthPolitics
#SurvivorLed #DeMedicalise
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
Peer Support 101 By Lisa Archibald
madintheuk.com/2026/01/peer...
#PeerSupport #MadStudies #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs #MentalHealthPolitics
#SurvivorLed #DeMedicalise
Peer Support 101 By Lisa Archibald
madintheuk.com/2026/01/peer...
#PeerSupport #MadStudies #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs #MentalHealthPolitics
#SurvivorLed #DeMedicalise
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
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
The International #MadStudies journal (imsj.org) was such a great outlet for this publication because of the long history of how science has colonised human psychology. Where #Aphantasia is concerned, biomedical and psychological research is now even colonising our imaginations. (2/4)
Es verweist auf die strukturelle Diskriminierung von Menschen auch Kindern mit psychischer Krisenerfahrungen/ psych. Diagnosen/ Menschen die als abweichend von der „Norm“ etikettiert werden. Es gibt viel Forschung dazu auch im Bereich der #madstudies #sanism #strukturellegewalt
Poster for the article, featuring DSQ's logo. Light blue text is written on a darker blue background. Underneath the dark blue background is a photo of books and a lamp. It reads: “Encountering the Blank Page: Improvising through Illegible Movements of Mad (Not)Doings by Jose Miguel Esteban (University of Toronto) This article is part of a new Special Issue: Mad Methods, in Disability Studies Quarterly”
Mad Methods - Disability Studies Quarterly's new Special Issue
We invite everyone to read “Encountering the Blank Page: Improvising through Illegible Movements of Mad (Not)Doings” by Jose Miguel Esteban
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#MadStudies #DisabilityStudies #MadMethods #AcademicChatter #DSQ
Poster for the article, featuring DSQ's logo. Light blue text is written on a darker blue background. Underneath the dark blue background is a photo of books and a lamp. It reads: “Sounding Mad Poetics as Resistant-Methods and Research-Creation by Christina Foisy Keywords: Mad Research-Creation, Mad Poetics, Sound Art, Listening Otherwise, Radical Compassion, Epistemic Justice, Sound Epistemologies, Ethics of Listening, Arts-Based Inquiry, Disability and Neurodiversity, Decolonial Listening, Anti-Sanism, Sonic Epistemologies This article is part of a new Special Issue: Mad Methods, in Disability Studies Quarterly”
Mad Methods - Disability Studies Quarterly's new Special Issue
We invite everyone to read “Sounding Mad Poetics as Resistant-Methods and Research-Creation” by Christina Foisy
dsq-sds.org/article/id/6...
#MadStudies #DisabilityStudies #MadMethods #AcademicChatter #DSQ
Poster for the article, featuring DSQ's logo. Light blue text is written on a darker blue background. Underneath the dark blue background is a photo of books and a lamp. It reads: “Academic Antipsychiatry: Exploring Methods and Language of Psy Abolition in Mad Studies by Efrat Gold (University at Buffalo, State University of New York) Keywords: mad studies, antipsychiatry, psy abolition, mad methodology, language and naming, professionalization, abolitionist critique, psy complex This article is part of a new Special Issue: Mad Methods, in Disability Studies Quarterly"
Mad Methods - Disability Studies Quarterly's new Special Issue
We invite everyone to read "Academic Antipsychiatry: Exploring Methods and Language of Psy Abolition in Mad Studies" by Efrat Gold
dsq-sds.org/article/id/6...
#MadStudies #DisabilityStudies #MadMethods #AcademicChatter #DSQ
Poster for the article, featuring DSQ's logo. Light blue text is written on a darker blue background. Underneath the dark blue background is a photo of books and a lamp. It reads: Contending with the “adult gaze” in Mad Studies: Participatory research methods led by psychiatrized children and youth by Maria Liegghio (York University) Keywords: adult gaze, children and youth, psychiatrisation, participatory action research, youth engagement This article is part of a new Special Issue: Mad Methods, in Disability Studies Quarterly"
Mad Methods - Disability Studies Quarterly's new Special Issue
We invite everyone to read "Contending with the 'adult gaze' in Mad Studies: Participatory research methods led by psychiatrized children & youth" by Maria Liegghio
dsq-sds.org/article/id/6...
#MadStudies #DisabilityStudies #MadMethods
Poster for the article, featuring DSQ's logo. Light blue text is written on a darker blue background. Underneath the dark blue background is a photo of books and a lamp. It reads: Mad Dreaming with SF: A Plea to Educators to Create Spaces for Reimagined/Transformative Futures by Maria Karmiris Keywords: anti-ableism, inclusive practices, imagination, contesting developmentalism This article is part of a new Special Issue: Mad Methods, in Disability Studies Quarterly"
Mad Methods - Disability Studies Quarterly's new Special Issue
We invite everyone to read "Mad Dreaming with SF: A Plea to Educators to Create Spaces for Reimagined/Transformative Futures" by Maria Karmiris
dsq-sds.org/article/id/6...
#MadStudies #DisabilityStudies #MadMethods #AcademicChatter #DSQ
