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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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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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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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La Yapa – Reflections from Solidarity in the Face of Authoritarianism
Read more: La Yapa – Reflections from Solidarity in the Face of AuthoritarianismMad 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).…