Mad Camp is an annual summer camp for mad people in Northern California – with people joining from all over the world! What’s it all about? Madness Radio producer and co-host Jessica Gallinger attended Mad Camp 2024 and interviewed Mad Campers about their experience, she’s joined by Mad Camp co-founders Dina Tyler and Will Hall […]

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How do decriminalizing drug use and sex work advance mad liberation? What lessons can psychiatric survivors learn from the harm reduction movement? Caty Simon’s activist leadership spans the low-income rights, psychiatric survivors, sex worker, and drug users union movements, and she was a key organizer at Freedom Center in Western Massachusetts. Caty is on the […]

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Legendary psychiatric survivor activist Irit Shimrat escaped psychiatric incarceration to become a leading anti-psychiatry organizer. Co-founder of the Ontario Psychiatric Survivors’ Alliance, Irit edited the Canadian magazine Phoenix Rising: The Voice of the Psychiatrized and wrote Call Me Crazy: Stories from the Mad Movement, bringing together the stories of many leading activists. Irit shares her […]

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