The Mad Bench I Can't Bring Myself to Leave
My contact with psychiatry was brief. My attachment to this mad position is not. Why am I still here?
10 pieces
All writing
Essays, arguments, questions, and encounters.
Questions We Are Living With
Questions about representation, labour, harm, collaboration, refusal, and what it takes to act together without pretending to be one.
A Moment Without the Balancing Act
For once, we could speak without immediately adding that there are good psychiatrists too. Then I caught myself doing it again.
Inside Survivor Research and Mad Studies
I went looking for people who might already have solved our problems. I found living arguments, labour boundaries, and no finished answers.
Fragile Practice, Booming Research
Qinlizhe research is arriving remarkably smoothly. What happens when participation comes before a struggle over power?
When Can We Say What We Actually Want to Say?
Shared commitments can create relationships we feel forced to maintain. Where does that leave anger, dislike, and the wish to speak honestly?
The Challenges and Limits of Mad Studies
Reading with Beresford and Rose while asking who gets to enter Mad Studies, speak for it, and make knowledge count.
I Used Zines to Help Students Rethink Psychiatry
A short account of using eight-page zines to think about mental health, knowledge, care, and power.
A Question for Mad Studies: What About the Non-English-Speaking World?
I asked about the non-English-speaking world. Why did the answer return to differences within the English-speaking one?
The Illusions of Collaboration and Unequal Power in Mental-Health Gongyi
Who gets to declare a beginning, define a community, and ask for solidarity? A response from within Chinese mental-health gongyi.