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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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  • 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,…

  • La Yapa – Reflections from Care, Trust and Community During Crisis

    In the final session of our series “Disability Activism Under Pressure: Resistance and Resilience in Authoritarian Contexts“, we turned inwards. After weeks of examining repression, surveillance, and the machinery of control, we closed by asking how we hold one another…

  • Doing Hope in the Ruins

    Doing Hope in the Ruins

    By Akriti Mehta Our webinar series on disability activism under authoritarianism has now come to a close. Hearing from people from such different contexts about the challenges they are facing has been difficult. It is clear that the forces of…