Symbolizing harmony and reconciliation, Nikka Yuko Garden honour Japanese contributions to the community of Lethbridge, no small thing 25 years after 2,000 plus Japanese Canadians were forcibly relocated to isolated sugar beet work camps in the area. #Historymatters #Recouncilation #Community

A long tradition links this tarot card to madness, as a search for spiritual knowledge and new ways of being. A Fool may be wise. Reversed, the card symbolizes chaos, folly, lack of direction and judgement – think current US president.#CallMeCrazy #HealingJourney #SelfHelp #DiversityEquityInclusion

822 Geary is a comfortable San Francisco urgent care clinic for people in #MentalHealth crisis with voluntary admission and medical staff 24/7. Clients can rest, do laundry, shower, get basic medical care, and connect to long term solutions. #CommunityMentalHealth #Empowerment #SystemChange #Equity

The book and film BRAZILIAN HOLOCAUST (Holocausto Brasileiro) tell the horrific tale of Barbacena psych hospital where people who were Black, homosexual, disabled, born out of wedlock, or political activists were held in deathly conditions.#Madhistory #Institution #HistPsych #Dishist #HealthJustice

EVIANCE helped develop Canada’s first interdisciplinary Master of Disability Studies, establish the first Research Chair in Disability Studies, found the Disability Information Network, and launch Disability People’s International. LEARN MORE: buff.ly/eNznuc8 #Dishist #DisabilityAwareness #Advocate

BC researcher and artist Katarina Thorsen uses whimsical imagery and an exquisite colour palette to tell the dark and tragic story of Joseph O’Dwyer, medicated, shocked and subject to a lobotomy at Riverview Hospital, .#Madhistory #Institution #HumanRights #CdnHistory #HistPsych #HistoryMatters

NEW QR CODE!!! The MAD PASTS, MAD PRESENCE CONFERENCE is taking place at the University of Victoria APRIL 28-29, bringing together activists, scholars, artists, and survivors to reflect on the mad movement and its legacies. A FREE EVENT Visit their Eventbrite Page to register buff.ly/dDMjF86

Join the MAD PASTS, MAD PRESENCE CONFERENCE at the University of Victoria APRIL 28-29, bringing together activists, scholars, artists, and survivors to reflect on the #MadMovement and its legacies. FREE buff.ly/aBJoaT4 In person / online. #Madhistory #HistPsych #MadStudies #SurvivorCulture

Read Wipond’s Substack that deftly sums up the radical differences between the Italian system of non-coercive community mental health centers (CMHCs) and American facilities with the same name. buff.ly/vEdB3fX #Madhistory #MadStudies #BigPharma #SystemChange #HealthJustice #HumanRights

Vancouver Art Gallery is launching an ART OF WELLBEING LAB, a space for all to come together and create art. #Wellness #Mentalhealth #Empowerment #HealingJourney #SelfHelp #Voice #SystemChange #Inequity #Decolonize #Indigenous #FirstNations #2SLGBTQIA #BIPoC #Feminist #Artwork #Art #ArtMatters

PHOENIX RISING was a brave mad Canadian magazine. Now mad historian Geoffrey Reaume has a book chapter about this key mad project in The Cultural Heritage of Psychiatry and Its Literary Transformations, eds K. Röder and C. Wächter.#Madhistory #MadStudies #Dishist #HumanRights #HealthJustice #Madart

Care is not jail. Read CBC’s HEALTHY DEBATE must-read piece about vulnerable seniors with cognitive impairments ending up in jail. buff.ly/jzROK2b#Ment... #Stigma #Advocate #DisabilityAwareness #CommunityMentalHealth #HumanRights #DiversityEquityInclusion #SystemChange #HealthJustice #Aging

Soft eugenics include cuts to people living with disabilities, leaving them eating inadequate food and in substandard accommodation. Soft eugenics are about cruelty, contempt, erasure.#Mentalhealth #Stigma #DisabilityAwareness #HumanRights #HealthJustice #Trauma #Injustice #Inequity

Robert Jay Lifton sojourned in the darkest corners of humanity, and the stories he brought back reshaped the American perspective. His last book was SURVIVING OUR CATASTROPHES, a meditation on the collective power of survivors. #HistoryMatters #Activism #Writer #Survivor #HumanRights #Trauma

The Institute for the Development of Human Arts (IDHA) is about sustained system change and honouring lived experience. buff.ly/9UEe4ae #Onlinelearning #Wellness #Mentalhealth #Stigma #Survivor #DisabilityAwareness #Empowerment #HumanRights #DiversityEquityInclusion #SystemChange #HealthJustice

UK's Centre for Mad Culture wants to know about your connection with the mad movement and what future events might engage you!!! Complete their short fully anonymous survey and ENTER TO WIN a £30 book token buff.ly/PtNeX4e #MadStudies #Activism #Advocate #CallMeCrazy #PeerSupport #Empowerment

In West Africa Bluemind Foundation’s HEAL BY HAIR initiative has trained 400-plus hairdressers to act as “mental health ambassadors.” buff.ly/CcGw0yk #Survivorculture #Wellness #Mentalhealth #Stigma #Advocate #PeerSupport #Empowerment #HealingJourney #SystemChange #Caregiving #Trauma #Feminist

“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