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Changing the Script: A Story of Self-Advocacy in Peru
Read more: Changing the Script: A Story of Self-Advocacy in PeruBy 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 strategies, alliances, tensions, and risks that shape it. We begin in Peru with a story…
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Launching Mad Café
Read more: Launching Mad CaféMad 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 hang out. At Mad Thinking, we believe that friendships, relationships, humour, and light-heartedness are not…
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A Year of Beginnings
Read more: A Year of Beginnings2025 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, and struggles. When we launched this initiative, we did so out of a shared conviction…
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La Yapa – Reflections from Care, Trust and Community During Crisis
Read more: La Yapa – Reflections from Care, Trust and Community During CrisisIn 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 when everything else collapses. Care, trust, and community are often invoked as buzzwords, but in…
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Doing Hope in the Ruins
Read more: Doing Hope in the RuinsBy 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 oppression and injustice are building momentum—authoritarianism is gaining ground from Argentina to UK to El…
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