New blog!
Zines & Coventry's Outside(R) zine festival
The Pod Cafe ZIG/ZAG
Christine Eade
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outside(R) Zine Fest COV
#Coventry
T.O. Walker H.Spandler 🐾🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈
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will be chatting capitalism, neurodiversity and mental health at sloth communism's Northern book launch in a couple of weeks – get ya tickets: eventbrite.co.uk/e/empire-of-no…

If Mad or neurodivergent people reclaim a stigmatized diagnosis and begin to use it for political organizing, it gets called 'trendy' or 'over-diagnosed'. I think they just don't want us organizing.

'If acid anarchist past is anything to go by, the new psychedelic renaissance could yet take a more anti-establishment turn'.
fascinating chapter about Robin Farquharson by Mark Gallagher

Open Access new book 'Expanding Mindscapes: A Global History of Psychedelics'
Tehseen Noorani @madwomantalking
direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edite…

Please join us to celebrate the launch of out winter issue and meet our contributors.

Date: 11th December 2023
Time: 6- 7 PM UK time.

This virtual event is open to everyone.

Registration link- us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Read my NEW article in the latest issue of Asylum Magazine - now available!

It is called 'The Jewel in the Wreckage of my 'Personality Disorder'' & is about discovering the shining truth behind my mental illness - after 27 years of cycling through crisis & inpatient services 💎

Winter issue of Asylum out now!

Cover image by artist ‘Childhood under rubble’ by Amira Tanany.

Please join our launch event to meet the artists and writers who have contributed to this issue.

#MentalInkness

Part 1 of my discussion of Beatrice Adler-Bolton (Beatrice Adler-Bolton ) and Artie Vierkant’s (@avierkant ) fabulous book “Health Communism: A Surplus Manifesto”

cc: sloth communism H.Spandler 🐾🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Nev Jones PhD

awaisaftab.substack.com/p/health-commu…

Congratulations to all involved in this. Art can be such a powerful means to communicate politics and few issues deserve more attention than the impact of austerity on disabled people.

📢Job alert! We are recruiting an Assistant Professor in Lived Experience Research to work with the team @ReCoCo on the Discovery Research Platform for #MedicalHumanities

Apply by 7 November 👇

tinyurl.com/drp-le-research

#mentalhealth #mentalhealth research #participatoryresearch

a great thesis. a pleasure to examine. thoroughly deserved. Congrats Dr. Sarah Golightley 👏🙏

Petition sign and share.
Save MSc Mad Studies at QMU

Despite its groundbreaking work the Mad Studies course has been suspended for intakes for the academic year (23/24) and its future at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh QMU called into question.

change.org/p/save-msc-mad…

I’m at Great Oak High School in Temecula, where students are walking out to protest the school district policy requiring parents to be told if their child identifies as transgender.

Asylum magazine autumn issue out now.
Cover art by Alex Widdowson

Articles/reviews by Rachel
Joseph Michael Afro-Asian Critical Psychology Sam Thomas H.Spandler 🐾🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Nez Sharp Kyle Hulbert @madwomantalking Adam Levon Brown, Miel Sloan, Lucette Davis, micha frazer-carroll Stop Oxevision and more

Short review of Mad World in the autumn edition of Asylum Magazine! Very honoured for it to be compared to Peter Sedgwick’s Psychopolitics and Mark Fisher’s Capitalist realism 📘🌍 thanks to H.Spandler 🐾🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 and Ian Parker

We are holding some workshops in the exhibition space over the next few days. Come join us for zine making, making seed paper from mental health notes (or anything else you'd like to shred) and collaborative embroidery. Timetable below

So great to be part of CNWL Peer Support's amazing, inspirational conference yesterday, where Tam @madwomantalking presented with H.Spandler 🐾🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 about Restorative Approaches to Harm in #mentalhealth and Sophie ran the Asylum Magazine and MadZines stall.

Fab graphic to accompany and record Tam @madwomantalking and H.Spandler 🐾🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈's talk about Restorative Approaches to Harm at CNWL Peer Support conference Ancient Approaches in Modern Healthcare. #LXConference2023
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