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#NowReReading2026 YEAR OF THE TIGER: AN ACTIVIST'S LIFE by my friend the late @sfdirewolf
whom I miss everyday via
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imbibed at Chapter 1 Coffee #Coffee #Books @bookstodon #BookStodon #BookMastodon #DisStodon #DIsability #CoffeeStodon #CoffeeMastodon #DisabilityMastodon

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Available for pre order:

A Mad Turn
Edited by Phil Smith

Written by Mad scholars, A Mad Turn explores the field of Mad Studies in theory and practice, and what Mad Studies can bring to academia and to other social institutions. What does it mean to “do” Mad Studies? What are the field’s intersections with disability justice, Mad justice, and gender and queer studies? This book is a bold step toward the Mad Studies yet-to-come—a Mad Studies that Mad people will build, twisting and turning and singing and dancing, a new realm of thinking-being-doing-knowing. Step into it with us.

https://autonomous-press.myshopify.com/products/a-mad-turn

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I’m interested in memoirs, blogs etcetera telling stories of resilience, surviving psychiatry, trauma (developmental). Please share them if you know any.
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Lisa Wallace on why she left psychiatric care and why she may return one day

https://www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/guest-post-a-psychiatric-survivor?r=c50ah&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

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The Soteria model relies on personal relationships, interactive activities, and minimal use of psychiatric medication within a comfortable “living community” as opposed to a conventional psychiatric setting.

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How Does the Soteria House Heal?
The alternative treatment model of Soteria helps individuals suffering from schizophrenia without relying on medication or coercion.

https://www.madinamerica.com/2019/09/soteria-house-heal/

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Searching for the “Psychiatric Yeti”: Schizophrenia Is Not Genetic
https://www.madinamerica.com/2024/01/psychiatric-yeti-schizophrenia-genetic/?mc_cid=91cea752ff&mc_eid=1b94bba8b7

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Empire of Normality
Neurodiversity and Capitalism
by Robert Chapman

This is a priority read for me!

I’m looking forward to how Chapman explains the emergence and rise of the pathology paradigm and its entanglement with the fundamental logic of capitalism. Specifically how the medical and scientific definitions of illness, disability, and normality have grown in response to economic and ideological developments.

https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745348667/empire-of-normality/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

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…the need to offer a positive account of mental illness—one that does not define the essence of mental illness exclusively as the absence, lack, or failure of the power of reasoning…

On the Importance of Conceptual Contrasts Madness, Reason, and Mad Pride
Awais Aftab

https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/916209 (open source)
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Mad Pride and Neurodiversity
Personal Perspective: Parallel movements of lived experience.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/beyond-mental-health/202312/mad-pride-and-neurodiversity?fbclid=IwAR0u8DfRIP4cLRQu_t0uA7MqwJfNTE9WQPwUFHzms7AQ7hbS9z4B226gDko_aem_Abdvn_RWjUPuiUr977ry7-2Dm1fT1OTQR4WSHVutATg7Y9n0HiugSwNLeguoMzZY_x0

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#MadLiterature
from lived experience to theory
Open access article

The Lived Experiences of Family Members and
Carers of People with Psychosis: A Bottom-Up
Review Co-Written by Experts by Experience and
Academics

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36689938/

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Alternative ways to understand psychiatric differences

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Mind Freedom International library of information about mental health, psychiatry, human rights & alternatives

https://mindfreedom.org/knowledgebase/

thank you @leftvu
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industrial culture / capitalism depends on the “have-nots”

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Lifting Families out of Poverty May Prevent Psychosis
https://www.madinamerica.com/2023/09/jama-psychiatry-lifting-families-out-of-poverty-may-prevent-psychosis/

thank you @leftvu

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Philosophy and Madness a combination that makes me smile!!!
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Too mad to be true II - The promises and perils of the first-person perspective

https://www.psychiatrieenfilosofie.nl/too-mad-to-be-true-ii

The second Too Mad To Be True conference that was dedicated to exploring the various links between philosophy and madness. The atmosphere was vibrant and it initiated new ways of thinking and communicating around issues of madness and philosophy. The central theme was both relevant to philosophical and mad theories and practices: ' The promises and perils of the first-person perspective'. The conference was hybrid: both in person, in Ghent, Belgium, as well as online. 

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Sanism is normalized in relationships with institutions.
It’s not talked about.
It’s woven tightly into unquestioned assumptions (common sense knowledge)
It’s a tool for power and control.

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The Wildflower Alliance

Grassroots Peer Support, Advocacy, and Training organization with a focus on harm reduction and human rights.
https://wildfloweralliance.org/

Thank you @leftvu 😍

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Two waves (1950s & 1970s) of systemic deinstitutionalisation and there are more “beds” than before; they just look different.

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Busting the Deinstitutionalization Myth: We Actually Have More Beds Than Ever Before
New data upends common beliefs about asylum closures, deinstitutionalization, and rates of psychiatric coercion.

https://www.madinamerica.com/2023/08/busting-deinstitutionalization-myth/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

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Mad Crip doula: offering holistic and emotional spiritual bodymind care, mixed with practical and crisis support (and plant medicine). moving from a liberation-centered and anti-oppressive lens. a transition doula with skills in: abortion, death, grief, Madness, and Disability.

#MadLiterature

https://www.stefaniekaufman.com/madcripdoula

endorsing: non-carceral, peer-led mental health care systems that exist outside of the state, reimagining everything we’ve come to learn about madness, and intervening in systems that oppress, disappear, and kill Disabled and mad folks.

Please Note: I don’t know Them in any capacity and They sure look bad-ass

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Disability doula. Peer support. Social support. Physical support. Cultural roots.

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Newly disabled people aren’t given a ‘how-to’ guide. Disability doulas are closing those gaps.
The community care practice, pioneered by queer women of color, reorients newly disabled people to a different life

https://19thnews.org/2023/07/disability-doulas-support-newly-disabled-people/

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Open Minded Online
sharing ideas and resources about holistic approaches to emotional and social wellbeing

We are two people who both have a great passion for holistic approaches to mental health. This passion has grown out of our own experiences of receiving traditional psychiatric treatment and finding it lacking.

We believe that it is possible to make sense of intense states of mind often described as psychosis.

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https://openmindedonline.com/resources/

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This phenomenon makes me SO mad, and it feels SO ableist.

How do you think it feels every time I have to figure out whether it matters that my 10 surgeries don’t fit in the one line you gave me?

Or that my rare genetic conditions don’t fit in that tiny “other” line?

Or checking boxes for symptoms I know you’ll ignore because I deal with chronic illness?

I optimize for large medical systems to minimize paperwork.

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https://mstdn.social/@erictopol/110848788295322602

#MadLiterature in progress:
RD Laing, David Cooper, Ervin Goffman, & Thomas Szaz
Interesting. History.
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Worked on an Excel timeline of events and I’m near 200 lines and we only just landed in Atlanta 🙃 I want to make sure I write my article from the facts. Most lines in the first day are backed up by a timestamp or screenshot in a support text or app. That’s on top of the Tweets. I believe this is what’s commonly referred to as “having the receipts”. #DisabilityMastodon #travel #delta #discrimination

Alexa, play music for bringing a giant airline to account for breaking the law #discrimination #disability #DisabilityMastodon #travel #delta

https://twitter.com/funnygodmother/status/1680747630874460165?s=46&t=k42F6THqZl4XtJYzr7yT4Q

Enclosure and debilitating restriction.
Enmeshing of care & treatment & dehumanization and loss of agency.

#MadLiterature
Institutions Often Treat Disability and Mental Health Not With Care But Violence
by George Yancy
https://truthout.org/articles/institutions-often-treat-disability-and-mental-health-not-with-care-but-violence/

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Nonnormativity.
Resist compulsory able-mindedness.
Chronically dysregulated.
Tenderness.
Inclusive neuroqueer feminist communities.

#MadLiterature
Neuroqueer Feminism: Turning with Tenderness toward Borderline Personality Disorder

By: Merri Lisa Johnson
https://sci-hub.ru/10.1086/712081

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Hear me out. I'm #autistic, #ADHD, and have a #MoodDisorder so what about BipAuDHD? Pronounced "bipod". Although "bipodded" sounds cool too, don't you think?
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Politics of madness;
racism. institutionalization. story of place. history of schizophrenia.
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The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease
by Jonathan Metzl

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