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An Invitation to Abolitionist Thinking: Reflections on Our Webinar Series
Read more: An Invitation to Abolitionist Thinking: Reflections on Our Webinar SeriesCan we reform systems that harm, control, and oppress people or do we need to imagine and build a different world? For centuries, people resisting slavery, colonialism, prisons, psychiatry, institutionalisation, state violence, and other systems of punishment and control have asked this question. Today, it remains as urgent as ever. Over the past few weeks,…
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Building a New World: An Invitation to Abolitionist Thinking
Read more: Building a New World: An Invitation to Abolitionist ThinkingStarting on 27 May, we are launching a 3-part webinar series that will bring together activists from diverse movements and regions to explore and share their thoughts, experiences, and practices of abolitionist politics. “As a society, we have long turned away from any social concern that overwhelms us…Years of this practice have now left us…
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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…