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Hello 💕 migrated from the hell site and hoping to find an academic community again 😅 interested in #anthropology #mentalhealth #madstudies #advocacy #psychology ☺️
August 31, 2024 at 6:47 PM
May 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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December 8, 2024 at 5:35 PM
Y'know, if artificial general intelligence becomes self-aware, madness may become a form of cherished humanity.

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December 18, 2024 at 8:40 PM
Come join @madnesscanada.bsky.social for our mad teach-in! You'll hear from excellent speakers who will share their lived experiences, and participate in an activity on politics and intersectionality to showcase the resources available at #MadSchool! #Madstudies #cdnhistory #madhistory
MAD TEACH-IN on 14 March 2025 - 12:00 to 1:30 PM EST. Diverse perspectives on mental health and madness in an inclusive open-minded space.
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#Madhistory #MadStudies #MentalHealthAwareness #Poetry #Memoir #LivedExperience #InclusiveEducation #MadSchool #Onlinelearning
March 4, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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.

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February 24, 2026 at 2:16 PM
I'm speaking at this #MadStudies Symposium on December 8, responding to my colourful chapter in the momentous new book, 'The Mad Studies Reader'. Join the symposium for a full day of radical contributions from contributors dedicated to transformative mental health: www.idha-nyc.org/mad-studies-...
November 16, 2024 at 8:21 AM
Gathering proposals for the 'Figments: Madness, Health and Creativity' Conference (University of Glasgow, 15 June 2026). Deadline: 12 December.

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#cfp #medhums #healthhums #madstudies #histmed #histpsych
November 11, 2025 at 9:40 AM
I was delighted to learn that Mars Project (2012) is now on YouTube. The film explores rapper Khari 'Conspiracy' Stewart's madness from many perspectives including his own. It challenges how we understand mental health and personal narratives #MadStudies #MadInCanada

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November 27, 2024 at 8:02 PM
Today I'm talking about mad art, mad non/sense and living, with a little Guattari + Nietzsche, at the #madstudies symposium. This event launches the momentous 'Mad Studies Reader' with a cocktail of very colourful people speaking from multiple perspectives. Join us:
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December 8, 2024 at 3:18 AM
What can periodicals tell us about the experience of time in Victorian asylums? I reflect on that in my article 'Passing the Hours' in the new VPR.

#histmed #MedHums #histpsych #Victorian #madstudies
NEW ISSUE ALERT! It's a happy day when you find the latest VPR in your mailbox. This number includes the 2024 VanArsdel and Expanding the Field essays as well as articles on asylum periodicals and the bookselling trade. Treat yourself to some delightful reading: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55567 @rs4vp.org
September 17, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Sup? My name's Elie. I have PhD in Psych & I'm a postdoc. I'm new to Bluesky and need to follow. Things I'm into: #neurodivergent/ #MentallyIll / #MadStudies content that is not constructed purely through an anti-psychiatry lens; lived experience research (I'm #AuDHD + #Bipolar); anything #Pokémon
May 11, 2025 at 1:53 AM
MAD TEACH-IN on 14 March 2025 - 12:00 to 1:30 PM EST. Diverse perspectives on mental health and madness in an inclusive open-minded space.
RSVP to Eventbrite link in bio
#Madhistory #MadStudies #MentalHealthAwareness #Poetry #Memoir #LivedExperience #InclusiveEducation #MadSchool #Onlinelearning
February 25, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Anyone know of any lived/living experience led research projects around suicide understanding either past or present, UK or abroad? #madsky #madstudies @roryoc.bsky.social
February 4, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Join a necessary conversation at the cutting edge of art, madness and Asian diasporic identity.#Madhistory #MadStudies #AcademicChatter #Disability #HumanRights #DiversityEquityInclusion #SystemChange #HealthJustice #Decolonize #Indigenous #2SLGBTQIA #BIPoC #ArtMatters #Madart #Madartists #MadAsians
February 27, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Yes! I am mostly proud :-) to say: I have experienced psychosis. And I am (still, untill April 1st) a doctoral student studying the extra-ordinary relational lives of people with psychosis in supportive housing contexts #Psychiatry / #MadStudies
December 3, 2024 at 9:40 PM
August 20, 2026 at 5:30 PM
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
March 12, 2026 at 5:31 PM
We are excited to relaunch the Madness Canada / Folie Canada website! Please consider circulating our Canada Helps page or setting up a monthly gift for ongoing impact: buff.ly/TDjvkJz. #Madhistory #Onlinelearning #Survivorculture #HistPsych #MadStudies ##AcademicChatter #Archivetwt #Archive #Museum
April 28, 2026 at 5:30 PM
I am proud to have written this story, published in @croakeynews.bsky.social today. I believe it is time for the world to feel the stories of psychiatric survivors. Thank you, Fay Jackson. #NotAllPsychiatrists

#NSWPsychiatryCrisis #DisabilityRights #MadStudies #PublicHealth
On the need for new ways of healing, a letter to psychiatrists
Amidst all the public discussion of the NSW psychiatrists’ pay dispute, there has been little focus on the needs and
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February 19, 2025 at 9:40 AM
University of Winnipeg’s Jan DeFehr was a closet critic of the mental health system until she was invited to teach her perspective on mental health. Read DeFehr's A CRITICAL MENTAL HEALTH PRIMER and Mad in America interview: buff.ly/SvtVUWV
#MadStudies #AcademicChatter #SystemChange #HealthJustice
April 30, 2026 at 5:30 PM