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
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#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
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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: “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
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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: 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
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#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
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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: Research-Based Theatre, Military Trauma, and Mad Praxis by Lauren Spring Keywords: Military trauma, research-based theatre, phenomenology, PTSD, moral injury, embodiment, arts-based research 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 “Research-Based Theatre, Military Trauma, and Mad Praxis” by Lauren Spring
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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: LatDisCrit and Mad Resistance: Decolonial Crip Counterstories as Spaces of Possibility by Alexis Padilla 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 "LatDisCrit and Mad Resistance: Decolonial Crip Counterstories as Spaces of Possibility" by Alexis Padilla
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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: "Holy Heritage: A Methodology for Learning about Religious Mad People’s History by Geoffrey Reaume Keywords: Mad people's history, religious writings, Margery Kempe, mad studies 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 "Holy Heritage: A Methodology for Learning about Religious Mad People’s History" by Geoffrey Reaume
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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: "Finding a home in madness: Hermit crab essays as creative research method & pedagogy by Leanne Toshiko Simpson, Rowan McCandless, and Sara Hashemi Keywords: hermit crab essay, creative writing, arts-based research, disability studies, memoir 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 "Finding a home in madness: Hermit crab essays as creative research method & pedagogy" by Leanne Toshiko Simpson, Rowan McCandless and Sara Hashemi
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#MadStudies #MadMethods #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: Why do We Archive? Ethical, Political, and Technical Reflections on Art Collections in Psychiatric Institutions Stefanie Gil Franco (CADOS-UCP; Centre for Communication and Culture - CECC/UCP) Keywords: psychiatric institutions, artistic archives, deinstitutionalisation, Portugal, mad studies 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 "Why do We Archive? Ethical, Political, and Technical Reflections on Art Collections in Psychiatric Institutions" by Stefanie Gil Franco
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#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: "Developing Mad Methodologies, Moving Toward a New “Patient Perspective” by Michael Rembis (University at Buffalo - SUNY) Keywords: patient perspective, historical methods, mad methods, radical compassion, mad writers, mad people's history 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 "Developing Mad Methodologies, Moving Toward a New 'Patient Perspective'" by Michael Rembis.
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#MadStudies #DisabilityStudies #MadMethods #HistoricalMethods #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: "Introduction: Mad Methods, Methods of Madness by Efrat Gold (University at Buffalo, State University of New York) & Michael Rembis (University at Buffalo, State University of New York) Keywords: mad studies, mad methods, critical disability studies, mad people's history, transnational mad studies, multiplicity, field formation, critical methodologies 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 the introduction to this issue, written by its co-editors, Efrat Gold and Michael Rembis: "Introduction: Mad Methods, Methods of Madness"
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#MadStudies #DisabilityStudies #MadMethods
Masterclass: Novel Sociological Methods & Practices in Disability Communities
📅 Date: Wednesday, February 11, 2026
⏰ Time: 9:30 AM - 11 AM EDT
💻 Location: Online via Zoom
🔗 Register: buff.ly/BnNPTVg
#HealthEquity #MadStudies #InclusiveResearch
