Mad Pride and intersections with art, creativity and marginalised groups

[Appleblossom]

@Jynx @chibam @tyme 

Madness is often associated with shame and stigma and discrimination. Mad Pride involves a way of embracing aspects of madness without necessarily pathologising or rejecting the value in the many and varied eperiences of people experiencing madness.  Yes there are popularised jokes about howling at the moon and there are studies into serious mental health issues.

Jynx invited me to start a thread. Its pretty broad, so I hope we can keep it going. When I joined Sane I began a few threads trying to get a more discursive mindset on the Sane forums. Mostly, those threads disappeared into the wilderness...although I was pleased, that some Sane staff did the Narrative Therapy training in Dulwich SA. Now we have a whole section devoted to advocating for change.  Grateful.

Just to kick it off I am sharing a pdf by a Netherlands scholar in Mad Studies.  I find Mad Studies an enlightened approach towards madness, as I am more and more disappointed in the mainstream.

file://How_to_Turn_Madness_into_Art_and_Philoso.pdf 

not sure if this is alright? Can we get pdf attached without my downloads, by putting in https

Faffing around technically isnt my strong suite, but somehow I have a huge book to share, which really might be good. Lets see what happens. Work in progress.

https://johv.dk/public/books/kusters2020.pdf 

One of my marginalisations is that my mother tongue is not English, and yes I am drawn to the insights of both the cultures of my ancestry. Bessel van der kolk isnt the only good Dutch writer in the field.  There are a lot of cu tting edge academic studies.

and a pic ...

Munch - The Scream

[Jynx]

I think you have tried to link to a file stored on your computer @Appleblossom - do you know if the pdf of the first book you shared exists online at all? 

I got the second one going though, thank you so much this will make for fantastic post-shift reading 😊

[Appleblossom]

Will work on other link .

https://kusterstekst.nl/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Wouter-Kusters-Turning-Madness-into-Art-and-Philo...

howzat?

Do you remember a song by Sherbet?

@Jynx jeez.. the 2nd link is not for the faint hearted.700 plus pages. But probably worth it.

[StuF]

I love this thread idea @Appleblossom !

But I will have to check it out tomorrow - sleep is beckoning for now.

I bid you good evening 🙂

[Appleblossom]

Man in a box Sarah Yeoman
just some pics to include some less verbal aspects of being