Mad Studies, experiential knowledge, and action.
New writing
My contact with psychiatry was brief. My attachment to this mad position is not. Why am I still here?
Read the essayQuestions about representation, labour, harm, collaboration, refusal, and what it takes to act together without pretending to be one.
For once, we could speak without immediately adding that there are good psychiatrists too. Then I caught myself doing it again.
I went looking for people who might already have solved our problems. I found living arguments, labour boundaries, and no finished answers.
Qinlizhe research is arriving remarkably smoothly. What happens when participation comes before a struggle over power?
Shared commitments can create relationships we feel forced to maintain. Where does that leave anger, dislike, and the wish to speak honestly?
Reading with Beresford and Rose while asking who gets to enter Mad Studies, speak for it, and make knowledge count.
A short account of using eight-page zines to think about mental health, knowledge, care, and power.
I asked about the non-English-speaking world. Why did the answer return to differences within the English-speaking one?
Who gets to declare a beginning, define a community, and ask for solidarity? A response from within Chinese mental-health gongyi.