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Connecting ideas, building solidarity.

We strive to create spaces and tools for critical reflection, collective learning, and solidarity, with the ultimate goal of strengthening disability organising.

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Why Mad Thinking?

We are here to reclaim ‘Mad Thinking’ and help build the world so many of us, across time and geography, have dreamed and worked towards. We cannot wait to do this with you. 

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  • Changing the Script: A Story of Self-Advocacy in Peru

    By Liliana Peñaherrera & Alberto Vásquez Movement Stories is a new series exploring how disability activists organise and work for change in different contexts. The aim is to look beyond success narratives and examine the politics behind their work: the…

  • Launching Mad Café

    Launching Mad Café

    Mad Thinking is launching a new space! Mad Café is a monthly virtual open-format space for disabled and Mad activists, organisers, and allies to connect, touch base, exchange, think together, be challenged, and play with new ideas. Or to simply…

  • A Year of Beginnings

    A Year of Beginnings

    2025 marked the first year of Mad Thinking. We began in April, reaching full operational capacity in June. It has been a year of beginnings: ideas taking shape, systems being set up, conversations opening, and connections forming across geographies, movements,…