“BATSHIT takes an axe to the lies we are sold about female madness.” Coming to Vancouver’s beloved Cultch 11-15 February! Tickets and info: buff.ly/VsdULLQ #Madhistory #Institution #Historymatters #WmnsHist #wmhist #HistPsych #MadStudies #WomeninPsych #Mentalhealth #Stigma #HumanRights

At the FORGE, skilled tradespeople with lived experience of #MentalHealth differences are learning #PeerSupport skills in an empathetic, non-clinical, strengths-based approach. Interested in learning more or donating to the project? buff.ly/m1XmVw4 #Wellness #Stigma #Addictions #SystemChange #Caring

Historian Mike Rembis & artist/activist Matt Bodett talk about the emergence of the MAD MOVEMENT on JUDI'S ROOM. WHEN: Wed, Feb 4, 2026 6pm EST 5pm CT 4pm MT 3 PM PCT ZOOM: buff.ly/eRono5f #Madhistory #Historymatters #HistPsych #MadStudies #Stigma #Activism #Survivor #MadArt #Decolonize #2SLGBTQIA

New research from King's College London found that taking in an art show heightens positive emotions and diminishes stress and the body’s inflammatory responses, findings echoed in a recent review in Nature Magazine. So Canada's lack of support for the arts is both a cultural and a health error.

Madness Canada is pleased to announce a new special issue of DISABILITY STUDIES QUARTERLY on MAD METHODS with Guest Editors Efrat Gold and Michael Rembis and lots of Canadian content! #MadStudies #AcademicChatter #Mentalhealth #DisabilityAwareness #HumanRights #Madart #DiversityEquityInclusion

Isabella Kulak is an Anishinaabe from Cote First Nation and a quiet cultural icon. Shamed for wearing a home-sewn ribbon skirt to school, her story and actions drove support a National Ribbon Skirt Day. Mad Can honours Isabella and her family. #Decolonize #Indigenous #FirstNations #ArtMatters

This team is seeking interview participants for a study of the experiences of Two Spirit, transgender, non-binary, otherwise gender expansive people who have received medical misinformation from a clinician. Use the QR code or email [email protected] #MadStudies #AcademicChatter #2SLGBTQIA #Trans

PRISM creates an environment for recovery by providing wraparound services for deeply psychotic homeless people. Adopted across Canada, PRISM could put a real dent in chronic homelessness among this vulnerable cohort. #Wellness #Mentalhealth #SystemChange #HealthJustice #Homelessness #Housing

Life Histories in Mind buff.ly/WZipDJL Manchester Metropolitan University | Tuesday 21st July 2026 Call for Papers, deadline – 15 January 2026 Send a c.300-word abstract and 5 keywords, along with a short biography of each author to [email protected] and [email protected]

Scholars, artists, and activists - send 350-word submissions by 15 January on Mad Pasts / Mad Presence and how to use the efforts of our elders to reshape and rethink how we “deal” with and conceptualize madness. For queries, submissions, or to volunteer – use email: [email protected]

Madness Canada's HEWTON GRIFFIN GRANTS fund students and/or people with lived experience to do archival research about the Canadian history of psychiatry, madness, mental health, addiction, mad activism, advocacy, or culture. DEADLINE: 23 January 2026. Details & application form: buff.ly/cPnHnHs

What to think of CBC’s The Assembly? The show features Canadian celebrities being quizzed by a panel of interviewers, all of whom are on the autistic or neurodivergent. On CBC's Gem gem.cbc.ca #Stigma #CallMeCrazy #Disability #DisabilityAwareness #Empowerment #Voice #DiversityEquityInclusion

The Canadian #HumanRights Commission is asking for written submissions of no more than 10,000 words on the lived/living experience of #Disability. The deadline to submit is February 2, 2026. Please submit via email: [email protected] #Advocate #Voice #HealthJustice #Trauma #Housing #Poverty

Health Justice Org is presenting its unique organizational perspective on madness and coercive state-sanctioned practices to the BC Supreme Court. At issue is a Charter challenge to DEEMED CONSENT. Read about this important case and support a great organization doing important work. buff.ly/TFg8LMC

Check out this interesting site, a local digital archive buff.ly/DtNfqFG MAD CAN finds value in the site’s 4 meticulously recreated patient life stories.#Madhistory #Onlinelearning #Survivorculture #Institution #Historymatters #HistPsych #MadStudies #Dishist #AcademicChatter #Archivetwt #Archive

Add your voice in a blog, video, artwork, creative expression, advocacy, and reflection and send it to [email protected] For more info visit buff.ly/t8nKTCZ #Survivorculture #DisabilityAwareness #HumanRights #HealthJustice #Activism #DiversityEquityInclusion #SystemChange #Decolonize

La Marr Jurelle Bruce offers profound and highly creative learnings about mad art, identity and resistance in this unruly book. #Madhistory #Survivorculture #MadStudies #AcademicChatter #Activism #DisabilityAwareness #HealingJourney #HumanRights #HealthJustice #Trauma #Injustice #Decolonize #Madart

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

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?

CONFERENCE WEBSITE: buff.ly/4jHoNWz PROPOSALS: due Friday 12 December 2025 buff.ly/3WGiWqq CONTACT: [email protected] #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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Was that wonderful woman that Tia spent 5 wild days and nights with real or a delusion? Should she trust the medical establishment and her fellow patients? Her new love on the psych ward? Or her frail human memory? PACIFIQUE | By Sarah L. Taggart | Coach House Books | 2022

Anger as overwhelming, even frightening. Anger as a wild storm of emotion. Anger as resilience and change-making. A child’s book that's appropriate for a range of ages, including adults. WHEN I SEE RED | By Britta Teckentrup | Penguin Random House Canada | 2022 #StoryTelling #Children #Emotions

Camille Hernández-Ramdwar, a TMU prof in Sociology and Caribbean studies, uses short stories to explore the will to survive amidst chaos and uncertainty. A book for our times. #HumanRights #DiversityEquityInclusion #Trauma #Injustice #Housing #Poverty #Decolonize #2SLGBTQIA #BIPoC #Feminist #Writer

Editors Melanie Jones and Shayda Kafa's rebellious, ambitious, engaged book is a Mad Studies summer must-read, that our spirits at Madness Canada. #MadStudies #Survivorculture #AcademicChatter #Activism #DisabilityAwareness #Empowerment #SystemChange #Inequity #Decolonize #2SLGBTQIA #BIPoC #Feminist

Read this powerful daughter’s memoir of a BIPOC mother lost to persecutory thoughts and self-destructive actions. Now a grown woman living in LA, LaBrie questions her own emotional stability, fields her mum's mad texts, and writes with honesty and humour. #Survivorculture #MadStudies #WomeninPsych

MEENNUNYAKAA / BLUEBERRY PATCH invites children to go berry picking back in time with Saulteaux Elders. Miigwech for the learnings in this beautiful book, created by two members of Pine Creek Indian Band, Manitoba. #Family #Food #Decolonize #Indigenous #FirstNations #StoryTelling #Children

Nova Scotia writer Donna Jones Alward focuses on the emotional lives of a grieving war widow and a young nurse facing unimagined personal trauma. #CanadianHistory #Historymatters #CdnHist #Survivor #Death #Dying #Caring #Family #Caregiving #Trauma #Injustice #Death #War #Homelessness #Housing

Agnes Richter, a seamstress who embroidered her emotional autobiography into her institutional uniform, represents the vital role of mad voices and visions in the healing process - a conviction of psychologist Gail Hornstein. #Madhistory #Survivorculture #HistPsych #MadStudies #PeerSupport #Madart