Madness Canada
@madnesscanada.bsky.social
We pay particular attention to the mechanisms of power and social justice issues. We aim to use history to understand the present and illuminate the future.
Canadian hospitals are questioning the use of ER for people in mental health crisis. Interested in more thoughts on the work being done? Listen to CBC White Coat Black Art program buff.ly/SMEi1Ft
#Medicine #Institution #Wellness #Mentalhealth #Stigma #Activism #Advocate #Disability #SystemChange
#Medicine #Institution #Wellness #Mentalhealth #Stigma #Activism #Advocate #Disability #SystemChange
November 27, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Canadian hospitals are questioning the use of ER for people in mental health crisis. Interested in more thoughts on the work being done? Listen to CBC White Coat Black Art program buff.ly/SMEi1Ft
#Medicine #Institution #Wellness #Mentalhealth #Stigma #Activism #Advocate #Disability #SystemChange
#Medicine #Institution #Wellness #Mentalhealth #Stigma #Activism #Advocate #Disability #SystemChange
THE FUTURE OF MENTAL HEALTH IN AMERICA CONFERENCE
3-4 December 2025
Online & In-person at West Hartford, CT buff.ly/lBUQL4R
What might healing in mental health look like if we dared to imagine something different?
3-4 December 2025
Online & In-person at West Hartford, CT buff.ly/lBUQL4R
What might healing in mental health look like if we dared to imagine something different?
November 25, 2025 at 6:30 PM
THE FUTURE OF MENTAL HEALTH IN AMERICA CONFERENCE
3-4 December 2025
Online & In-person at West Hartford, CT buff.ly/lBUQL4R
What might healing in mental health look like if we dared to imagine something different?
3-4 December 2025
Online & In-person at West Hartford, CT buff.ly/lBUQL4R
What might healing in mental health look like if we dared to imagine something different?
CONFERENCE WEBSITE: buff.ly/4jHoNWz
PROPOSALS: due Friday 12 December 2025 buff.ly/3WGiWqq
CONTACT: Mila.Daskalova@glasgow.ac.uk
#Madhistory #Survivorculture #HistPsych #MadStudies #AcademicChatter #Stigma #Art #Madart #Madartists #Callmecrazy #Healing
PROPOSALS: due Friday 12 December 2025 buff.ly/3WGiWqq
CONTACT: Mila.Daskalova@glasgow.ac.uk
#Madhistory #Survivorculture #HistPsych #MadStudies #AcademicChatter #Stigma #Art #Madart #Madartists #Callmecrazy #Healing
November 20, 2025 at 6:30 PM
CONFERENCE WEBSITE: buff.ly/4jHoNWz
PROPOSALS: due Friday 12 December 2025 buff.ly/3WGiWqq
CONTACT: Mila.Daskalova@glasgow.ac.uk
#Madhistory #Survivorculture #HistPsych #MadStudies #AcademicChatter #Stigma #Art #Madart #Madartists #Callmecrazy #Healing
PROPOSALS: due Friday 12 December 2025 buff.ly/3WGiWqq
CONTACT: Mila.Daskalova@glasgow.ac.uk
#Madhistory #Survivorculture #HistPsych #MadStudies #AcademicChatter #Stigma #Art #Madart #Madartists #Callmecrazy #Healing
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
#Madhistory #Onlinelearning #Survivorculture #Historymatters #Medhum #HistPsych #MadStudies #Dishist #AcademicChatter #Archive #Museum #DisabilityAwareness #Voice #Decolonize #DiversityEquityInclusion
November 12, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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
#Madhistory #Onlinelearning #Survivorculture #Historymatters #Medhum #HistPsych #MadStudies #Dishist #AcademicChatter #Archive #Museum #DisabilityAwareness #Voice #Decolonize #DiversityEquityInclusion
Canada needs to THINK BIG about #housing and #equity. Balanced Supply of Housing (BSH) project is a step in the right direction bsh.ubc.ca Let's hope this tower of new knowledge and understandings can launch a national program for housing justice. #Wellness #Mentalhealth #HumanRights #SystemChange
November 6, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Canada needs to THINK BIG about #housing and #equity. Balanced Supply of Housing (BSH) project is a step in the right direction bsh.ubc.ca Let's hope this tower of new knowledge and understandings can launch a national program for housing justice. #Wellness #Mentalhealth #HumanRights #SystemChange
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
#Madhistory #Onlinelearning #Survivorculture #Historymatters #Medhum #HistPsych #MadStudies #Dishist #AcademicChatter #Archive #Museum #DisabilityAwareness #Voice #Decolonize #DiversityEquityInclusion
November 4, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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
#Madhistory #Onlinelearning #Survivorculture #Historymatters #Medhum #HistPsych #MadStudies #Dishist #AcademicChatter #Archive #Museum #DisabilityAwareness #Voice #Decolonize #DiversityEquityInclusion
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
#Madhistory #HistPsych #MadStudies #AcademicChatter #Archivetwt #Mentalhealth #HealthJustice #Family #Trauma #Inequity #BIPoC
October 30, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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
#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
October 28, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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
The mental health impacts of climate change are slowly working their way into public awareness. Here is a new one: researchers are finding probable links between Lewy body dementia and fine particle air pollution. Read: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#Mentalhealth #ClimateChange #HealthJustice
#Mentalhealth #ClimateChange #HealthJustice
October 23, 2025 at 5:31 PM
The mental health impacts of climate change are slowly working their way into public awareness. Here is a new one: researchers are finding probable links between Lewy body dementia and fine particle air pollution. Read: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#Mentalhealth #ClimateChange #HealthJustice
#Mentalhealth #ClimateChange #HealthJustice
Kira A. Smith believes in the importance of history and memory as part of community building and dreamwork for a better future. At Madness Canada, she plans to use her skills as a public historian to give back to the mad community through archiving and interpreting mad history.
October 21, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Kira A. Smith believes in the importance of history and memory as part of community building and dreamwork for a better future. At Madness Canada, she plans to use her skills as a public historian to give back to the mad community through archiving and interpreting mad history.
Join York's Mad Studies Hub to view filmmaker Shabnam Sukhdev’s “Unfinished”. The screening will be followed by a roundtable discussion with our invited panellists focused on conversations on mental health, madness, and bridging lived experience.
Eventbrite page for registration: buff.ly/Jv7guz8
Eventbrite page for registration: buff.ly/Jv7guz8
October 16, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Join York's Mad Studies Hub to view filmmaker Shabnam Sukhdev’s “Unfinished”. The screening will be followed by a roundtable discussion with our invited panellists focused on conversations on mental health, madness, and bridging lived experience.
Eventbrite page for registration: buff.ly/Jv7guz8
Eventbrite page for registration: buff.ly/Jv7guz8
Allison Tarr embraces care that is brave, relational and unafraid of complexity. She is looking forward to working collaboratively at Madness Canada to support accessible, justice-aligned spaces that honour lived experience, and foster critical engagement with Canada’s mental health legacies.
October 14, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Allison Tarr embraces care that is brave, relational and unafraid of complexity. She is looking forward to working collaboratively at Madness Canada to support accessible, justice-aligned spaces that honour lived experience, and foster critical engagement with Canada’s mental health legacies.
What has happened with Toronto’s highly successful Asian Initiative in Mental Health Program (AIM)? Media coverage of this issue died in the heat of summer, but Madness Canada is wondering how the people who once got the care they needed from AIM are faring in the new system. #HealthJustice #BIPoC
October 9, 2025 at 5:30 PM
What has happened with Toronto’s highly successful Asian Initiative in Mental Health Program (AIM)? Media coverage of this issue died in the heat of summer, but Madness Canada is wondering how the people who once got the care they needed from AIM are faring in the new system. #HealthJustice #BIPoC
Rachel Galea cares about how health care impacts women with mental health diagnoses, especially borderline personality disorder. An RN and faculty member at Fleming School of Nursing, she aims to develop innovative, equitable health services for people who live with stigmatizing conditions.
October 7, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Rachel Galea cares about how health care impacts women with mental health diagnoses, especially borderline personality disorder. An RN and faculty member at Fleming School of Nursing, she aims to develop innovative, equitable health services for people who live with stigmatizing conditions.
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
#Madhistory #MadStudies #AcademicChatter #DisabilityAwareness #Voice #Decolonize
October 2, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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
#Madhistory #MadStudies #AcademicChatter #DisabilityAwareness #Voice #Decolonize
Tune into the WIKWEMIKONG NURSING HOME #PODCAST on TRC Day. Told by residents, workers and family, this story is deeply significant in the context of de-colonialization.
covidinthehouseofold.ca/podcast/ #SystemChange #Aging #Family #Caregiving #Trauma #Housing #Decolonize #Indigenous #FirstNations
covidinthehouseofold.ca/podcast/ #SystemChange #Aging #Family #Caregiving #Trauma #Housing #Decolonize #Indigenous #FirstNations
September 30, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Tune into the WIKWEMIKONG NURSING HOME #PODCAST on TRC Day. Told by residents, workers and family, this story is deeply significant in the context of de-colonialization.
covidinthehouseofold.ca/podcast/ #SystemChange #Aging #Family #Caregiving #Trauma #Housing #Decolonize #Indigenous #FirstNations
covidinthehouseofold.ca/podcast/ #SystemChange #Aging #Family #Caregiving #Trauma #Housing #Decolonize #Indigenous #FirstNations
Toronto's Anishnawbe Health Centre is a medical facility and an Indigenous health hub. Celebrate its beautiful new health campus on TRC Day.
#Wellness #Mentalhealth #HealingJourney #DiversityEquityInclusion #SystemChange #HealthJustice #Decolonize #Indigenous #FirstNations #Architecture
#Wellness #Mentalhealth #HealingJourney #DiversityEquityInclusion #SystemChange #HealthJustice #Decolonize #Indigenous #FirstNations #Architecture
September 25, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Toronto's Anishnawbe Health Centre is a medical facility and an Indigenous health hub. Celebrate its beautiful new health campus on TRC Day.
#Wellness #Mentalhealth #HealingJourney #DiversityEquityInclusion #SystemChange #HealthJustice #Decolonize #Indigenous #FirstNations #Architecture
#Wellness #Mentalhealth #HealingJourney #DiversityEquityInclusion #SystemChange #HealthJustice #Decolonize #Indigenous #FirstNations #Architecture
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
4:30 pm to 6:30 pm 24th September 2025 Eventbrite buff.ly/e1if1du #Madhistory #MadStudies #AcademicChatter #SystemChange #2SLGBTQIA #BIPoC
September 23, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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
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
#Madhistory #Institution #CanadianHistory #Dishist #AcademicChatter #HealthJustice #Trauma #Inequity
September 18, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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
#Madhistory #Institution #CanadianHistory #Dishist #AcademicChatter #HealthJustice #Trauma #Inequity
Rose Cartright was a poster girl for #OCD until she began creating her own #MentalHealth map, interviewing neuroscientists, sampling #Psychedelics and Buddhism, and exploring her #Trauma.
#MadStudies #BigPharma #WomeninPsych #Wellness #Mentalhealth #Stigma #Survivor #SelfHelp #SystemChange #Family
#MadStudies #BigPharma #WomeninPsych #Wellness #Mentalhealth #Stigma #Survivor #SelfHelp #SystemChange #Family
September 16, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Rose Cartright was a poster girl for #OCD until she began creating her own #MentalHealth map, interviewing neuroscientists, sampling #Psychedelics and Buddhism, and exploring her #Trauma.
#MadStudies #BigPharma #WomeninPsych #Wellness #Mentalhealth #Stigma #Survivor #SelfHelp #SystemChange #Family
#MadStudies #BigPharma #WomeninPsych #Wellness #Mentalhealth #Stigma #Survivor #SelfHelp #SystemChange #Family
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
#Madhistory #Survivorculture #HistPsych #MadStudies #Dishist #AcademicChatter #BigPharma #WomeninPsych #Activism HealthJustice
September 11, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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
#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
#Madhistory #HistPsych #MadStudies #Dishist #AcademicChatter #Stigma #Activism #Advocate #PeerSupport #BIPoC #Feminist
September 9, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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
#Madhistory #HistPsych #MadStudies #Dishist #AcademicChatter #Stigma #Activism #Advocate #PeerSupport #BIPoC #Feminist
MUSIC AS MEDICINE posits #Music as one of the most potent therapies for neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s, but also cognitive injury, depression, and pain. An excellent end of summer read.
#Wellness #Mentalhealth #Dementia #Disability #HealingJourney #SelfHelp #Voice
#Wellness #Mentalhealth #Dementia #Disability #HealingJourney #SelfHelp #Voice
September 4, 2025 at 5:31 PM
MUSIC AS MEDICINE posits #Music as one of the most potent therapies for neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s, but also cognitive injury, depression, and pain. An excellent end of summer read.
#Wellness #Mentalhealth #Dementia #Disability #HealingJourney #SelfHelp #Voice
#Wellness #Mentalhealth #Dementia #Disability #HealingJourney #SelfHelp #Voice
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
#Madhistory #HistPsych #MadStudies #AcademicChatter #HealingJourney #Emotions #HealthJustice #Trauma #Decolonize #2SLGBTQIA #BIPoC #Feminist
September 3, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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
#Madhistory #HistPsych #MadStudies #AcademicChatter #HealingJourney #Emotions #HealthJustice #Trauma #Decolonize #2SLGBTQIA #BIPoC #Feminist
This pathbreaking open-access book considers #Suicide in the Middle East and North Africa, regions largely ignored in the field buff.ly/o3js3Lk
#AcademicChatter #Medicine #BigPharma #Stigma #Activism #Advocate #PeerSupport #HumanRights #HealthJustice #Trauma #Inequity #Decolonize #Feminist
#AcademicChatter #Medicine #BigPharma #Stigma #Activism #Advocate #PeerSupport #HumanRights #HealthJustice #Trauma #Inequity #Decolonize #Feminist
August 28, 2025 at 5:30 PM
This pathbreaking open-access book considers #Suicide in the Middle East and North Africa, regions largely ignored in the field buff.ly/o3js3Lk
#AcademicChatter #Medicine #BigPharma #Stigma #Activism #Advocate #PeerSupport #HumanRights #HealthJustice #Trauma #Inequity #Decolonize #Feminist
#AcademicChatter #Medicine #BigPharma #Stigma #Activism #Advocate #PeerSupport #HumanRights #HealthJustice #Trauma #Inequity #Decolonize #Feminist