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I think Franco Basaglia and his equipe had some good ideas about madness. Moved from one mile zero (YYT) to the other (YYJ). I am trying to be a writer. PhD student (Social Dimensions of Health), UVic
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please share although I seem to be very disconnected on here
drayah.bsky.social Andrea White @drayah.bsky.social · Aug 18
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Call for Papers/Abstracts
We are planning a Mad Studies conference and invite scholars, artists, and activists to participate. We are seeking submissions around the theme of Mad Pasts, Mad Presence in Victoria, BC. contact victoria.madstudies@gmail.com for more info.
August 28, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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please share although I seem to be very disconnected on here
drayah.bsky.social Andrea White @drayah.bsky.social · Aug 18
‪Andrea White‬

Call for Papers/Abstracts
We are planning a Mad Studies conference and invite scholars, artists, and activists to participate. We are seeking submissions around the theme of Mad Pasts, Mad Presence in Victoria, BC. contact victoria.madstudies@gmail.com for more info.
August 28, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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‪Andrea White‬

Call for Papers/Abstracts
We are planning a Mad Studies conference and invite scholars, artists, and activists to participate. We are seeking submissions around the theme of Mad Pasts, Mad Presence in Victoria, BC. contact victoria.madstudies@gmail.com for more info.
August 18, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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‪Andrea White‬

Call for Papers/Abstracts
We are planning a Mad Studies conference and invite scholars, artists, and activists to participate. We are seeking submissions around the theme of Mad Pasts, Mad Presence in Victoria, BC. contact victoria.madstudies@gmail.com for more info.
August 18, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Call for Papers/Abstracts
We are planning a Mad Studies conference and invite scholars, artists, and activists to participate. We are seeking submissions around the theme of Mad Pasts, Mad Presence in Victoria, BC. contact victoria.madstudies@gmail.com for more info.
August 7, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Call for Papers/Abstracts
We are planning a Mad Studies conference and invite scholars, artists, and activists to participate. We are seeking submissions around the theme of Mad Pasts, Mad Presence in Victoria, BC. contact victoria.madstudies@gmail.com for more info.
August 7, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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I'm launching a new study on therapeutic boarding schools in Canada. I am looking for people who have previously been enrolled in a Canadian therapeutic boarding school. Research includes a brief, confidential online questionnaire. Please spread the word!
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A research recruitment flyer with a link to the study.
July 25, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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this is long and difficult, but well worth reading all the way through. this could easily be me. when i'm psychotic i tend to think that people are trying to trick me into eating human flesh and i get suspicious of food. i haven't ever gone into a home, but i've trespassed in yards and on porches
Alan Thibodeau, a single father who had been his parents’ caretaker, got arrested during a mental-health episode in which he wandered into a stranger’s home and fell asleep. “This was so, so preventable,” his family’s lawyer, James B. Moore III, told me, explaining that Alan had entered the jail at a hundred and seventy-eight pounds; he died there, under the care of a private medical company called Southern Health Partners, weighing barely a hundred. “He had a really strong support group and family who loved him,” Moore said. “He didn’t fit the profile you might assume.” (Armor and Southern Health Partners did not respond to requests for comment.)
April 21, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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The neo-reactionary blogger Curtis Yarvin’s call for a monarch to rule America once seemed like a joke. Not anymore.
Curtis Yarvin’s Plot Against America
The reactionary blogger’s call for a monarch to rule the country once seemed like a joke. Now the right is ready to bend the knee.
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June 2, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Welcome new followers! Reminder that free them all includes folks incarcerated in psychiatric facilities ❤️‍🔥

Art by arttwink.gay (IG: art_twink)
Graphic of a dark-skinned person in a wheelchair looking through a barred window with the following text overlaid on it: "Reminder that free them all includes folks incarcerated in psychiatric facilities." On the windowsill you can read "Project LETS." Art done by arttwink-- https://arttwink.gay/?fbclid=PAY2xjawJiWLZleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABp-u3RxPPes9bBWFAeY1_s-8IXkbWtY9f4nnjS0BW4AB_6K091x7T_NqMYWPr_aem_a32G21Yfm9gUHpS-Z6WNuQ
April 8, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Critical Perspectives on Coercive Practices in Mental Health
With panel speakers Marina Morrow (York University), Lisa Brophy (La Trobe University), and Nev Jones (University of Pittsburgh)
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April 3, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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"Η καλύτερη πρόληψη ενάντια στις ψυχικές παθήσεις είναι ο αγώνας ενάντια στη φτώχεια"
Franco Basaglia, Ιταλός νευροψυχίατρος που από το ψυχιατρείο της Τεργέστης ξεκίνησε το κίνημα της αποασυλοποίησης.
December 22, 2024 at 8:12 AM
drayah.bsky.social
Well I got my SSHRC award reinstated so I will be able to go back to my PhD program in the Fall. I am so glad I persisted and complained otherwise it would not be happening.
April 2, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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“As someone who has been part of an underground movement for decades, I’ve seen firsthand how alternative spaces can be just as prone to authoritarianism and dogma as the institutions they critique.” DuBrul
March 29, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Some good news: I think I have a winning cover design.
A black and white photo of African American women standing behind a fence, in front a white wooden building. The women all wear white dresses and dark sweaters. The photo is framed by a stark tree on one side and a wooden telegraph pile makes a cross shape against the white building. The title of the book: Jim Crow in the Asylum is printed in burnt orange in the upper left corner with the subtitle “Psychiatry and Civil Rights in the American South” in black underneath. In the foreground, printed in white, is my name Kylie M. Smith.
March 10, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Watching An Angel at my Table for my first time. www.theguardian.com/books/articl...
From poverty, psychiatric hospital and writing in a shed to literary stardom: Janet Frame at 100
The New Zealand author channelled her experience of tragedy and mental illness with dazzling results. Now centenary celebrations will ensure her extraordinary vision lives on
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March 6, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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March 6, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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Fight between bald eagle 🦅 and Canada goose ‘highly symbolic, says photographer. Eagle gave up after 20 minutes of squawking.
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Photographer who snapped fight between a bald eagle and Canada goose calls it 'very symbolic' | CBC News
A bald eagle may have thought it spotted an easy lunch in a Canada goose sitting on an icy bay in Burlington, Ont., but according to Mervyn Sequeira — who watched and photographed a 20-minute battle b...
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March 5, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Excerpts from Forgotten Crimes: The Holocaust and people with disabilities by Suzanne E. Evan's

These passages speak on how after murdering hundreds of thousands of disabled folks, the Nazis not only got away with it but never even paid restitution to the disabled community or even apologized.
Not only did most of the men and women involved in committing the euthanasia murders escape justice, but the atrocities committed against disabled people in Germany, Austria, Poland, the former Soviet Union, and other regions during the Nazi era have gone largely unrecognized and uncompen-sated. Because of neglect by historians, as well as the political powerlessness and economic deprivation of people with dis-abilities, no memorial center or museum specifically for survivors with disabilities exists anywhere in the world today. Without a memorial dedicated to people with disabilities, there are no reminders to the world of the horrors inflicted on people with disabilities during the Nazi era. Without these reminders, the specter of a recurrence of this nightmarish victimization remains. Moreover, while there are thousands of Holocaust museums and memorials internationally, it is exceedingly rare for any of them to give more than a passing reference to people with disabilities. Most do not even mention the horrors inflicted on men and women with disabilities during the Holo-caust. In Yad Vashem in Israel, among the acres of memorials and the tens of thousands of pages of text, there is only a single brief reference to the murder of people with disabilities. After the war, disabled victims were not recognized as persons persecuted by the Nazi regime. Survivors received no restitution for time spent in the killing hospitals nor for their forced sterilization. Although the sterilization law had been declared invalid by the Allies, the postwar German state did not recognize sterilization under the Nazi era law as racial per-secution, and postwar German courts held that compulsory sterilization under the law had followed appropriate proce-dures. Men and women with disabilities who challenged such rulings lost their cases in court when they could not prove that the finding that had led to their sterilization had been "med-ically" wrong. Thus the appeal of a sterilized deaf person was denied in 1950 after two court-appointed physicians certified that the original finding of congenital deafness had been accu-rate. In 1964 the appeal for restitution from a sterilized person, who during the Nazi period had been a student at the former Israelite Institution for the Deaf in Berlin, was denied. The postwar German court found that while the appellant as a Jew belonged to a group recognized as persecuted under the restitution law, his sterilization as a deaf person did not constitute Nazi persecution. To this day the German state has not fully recognized and compensated people with disabilities, including the deaf, for their persecution during the Nazi period.23 One reparations court declared that disabled victims were "people below the level of ciphers." Another court refused to punish those who acted in the euthanasia program because euthanasia had its supporters before the Nazi era, therefore the act was not punishable as a specifically Nazi crime. From time to time efforts were made to expand German law so as to provide for those who were victims of the sterilization and euthanasia policies. All these efforts failed 24 This neglect continues today. For example, people with disabilities were designated as one of five victim groups but Were ignored in the notice process of In re: Holocaust Victim Aret, Weishaus, et al. V. Proos Bank of Switzerland, et al. The notice in the Holocaust Victim Assets litigation may have been the most expensive and extensive ever given. The notice administrators anticipated spending $2.3 million on notice for Jewish organizations alone. Another $500,000 was allocated to reach Romani organizations and media. In contrast, not one dollar was allocated for organizations serving people with disabilities. In addition, no provision whatsoever was made for Braille notice, audio notice, TTY, diskette, large type for the vision disabled, or accessible computer technology for people with disabilities. The plan also provided for contact with more than six thousand Jewish organizations worldwide and perhaps as many as five hundred Romani organizations. But no disability organizations were ever consulted or informed about the planned notification procedures.25 THE PERSISTENCE OF NEGATIVE ATTITUDES AND STEREOTYPES Discrimination against people with disabilities did not begin with the Holocaust. Nor did it end with the defeat of the Nazis. On the contrary, people with disabilities throughout the world continue to be the subject of many of the same myths, dehumanizing stereotypes, and falsehoods that made their sterilization, exploitation, and extermination possible during the Nazi era. As Hugh Gallagher notes: "The Germans are not 'different' from Americans in any critical sense. •.. How they treated their insane, handicapped and retarded during the Third Reich was certainly extreme behavior-tragic and appalling-but it was not inconsistent with patterns of social behavior that can be traced throughout the history of the disabled over the centuries." And, "in fact, there is no reason to believe that the attitudes of the Germans in the 193os toward the disabled and chronically ill were
February 28, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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Madness Canada/Folie Canada is hosting a Mad Teach-In on March 15. To Join: RSVP your spot with Eventbrite www.eventbrite.ca/e/mad-school...
#MadStudies #InclusiveEducation
Text reads: Join Our MAD TEACH-IN. March 14th, 2025, from 12:00 to 1:30 PM EST. A webinar featuring David Reville, Kiran Shoker, and Noah Reid. Moderator: Adam Davies. Kira Smith: Facilitator. Sponsore: Madness Canada/Folie Canada- Robarts Cente for Canadian Studies - Mad Studies Hub @ YorkU. RSVP your spot with Eventbrite
February 25, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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#SSHRC is being a jerk.
February 21, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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The MAD STUDIES HUB at York University is officially launched!!
#Mad Studies is emancipatory, it resists authoritative definitions, it centers lived experience.
#AcademicChatter #BigPharma #Mentalhealth #HumanRights #DiversityEquityInclusion #SystemChange #HealthJustice #Trauma #Decolonize #BIPoC
January 30, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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inaugural annual international
MAD STUDIES FORUM 2025
TOPIC: MAD STUDIES - WHERE TO FROM HERE?
23 MAY 2025 1130-1300 UTC

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Meeting ID: 338 441 370 694
Passcode: 6W3we3Ec

RSVP by 1st May 2025
For all enquiries email Rachael McMahon: mcmahonrachael@hotmail.com
inaugural annual international MAD STUDIES FORUM 2025 TOPIC: MAD STUDIES - WHERE TO FROM HERE? 23 MAY 2025 1130-1300 UTC Co-hosted with RC49 - The International Sociological Association's Research Committee on Mental Health & Illness PRESENTERS: PROFESSOR PETER BERESFORD, OBE (UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA) AND PROFESSOR BREN LEFRANÇOIS(MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR) SESSION ORGANISER AND CHAIR - DR RACHAEL MCMAHON
February 18, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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February 15, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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Michael Taussig about #anthropology as #writing about people‘s #stories, rather than recording information about them lareviewofbooks.org/article/i-sw...
I Swear I Read This: John Cline Interviews Michael Taussig | Los Angeles Review of Books
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February 14, 2025 at 10:05 AM