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 when everything else collapses. Care, trust, and community are often invoked as buzzwords, but in…

Mad Thinking hosted the fifth session of its 6-part webinar series, “Disability Activism Under Pressure: Resistance and Resilience in Authoritarian Contexts” on October 15. Titled “Solidarity in the Face of Authoritarianism: What Cross-Movement Activism Demands”, the conversation explored the meaning and practice of solidarity across movements. The session was moderated by Negin Shiraghaei (Azadi Network).…

On October 1, 2025, Mad Thinking hosted the fourth session of its webinar series, “Disability Activism Under Pressure: Resistance and Resilience in Authoritarian Contexts.” Titled “Re-thinking How We Come Together: Building Diverse Structures of Organising,” the conversation explored how movements can resist fragmentation and rethink the very ways we organise, lead, and sustain collective power.…

We held the third session of our webinar series on “Disability Activism Under Pressure: Resistance and Resilience in Authoritarian Contexts” on September 18. This session, titled Funding Futures: Re-Thinking Current Models and Finding Alternatives, brought together Deya Bhattacharya (AWID), Marija Jakovljević (Dalan Fund), and Fredrick Ouko (ADD International). The conversation, moderated by Lizzie Kiama (This…