Category: Updates

  • Launching Mad Café

    Launching Mad Café

    Mad 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…

    Read more: Launching Mad Café
  • 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, and struggles. When we launched this initiative, we did so out of a shared conviction…

    Read more: A Year of Beginnings
  • Disability Activism Under Pressure: Resistance and Resilience in Authoritarian Contexts

    Disability Activism Under Pressure: Resistance and Resilience in Authoritarian Contexts

    This six part webinar series brings together activists and organisers—disabled and non-disabled—to share tools, strategies, and reflections for organising under authoritarian conditions. Across the world, activists are facing escalating threats from authoritarian and repressive governments. Disability movements are not exempt. Disabled organisers, particularly those engaged in cross-movement work or advocating for structural change, are being…

    Read more: Disability Activism Under Pressure: Resistance and Resilience in Authoritarian Contexts
  • We’re live!

    We’re live!

    Mad Thinking is officially born. Today, we held the constitutive assembly of Mad Thinking—both in Geneva and online—adopting our statutes and kicking off this new organisation rooted in disability justice, solidarity, critical thinking, and movement-building. We’re excited to start creating space for bold conversations, shared learning, and collective visioning. Mad Thinking is a space for…

    Read more: We’re live!