AppleblossomSenior Contributor
Mad Pride and intersections with art, creativity and marginalised groups
@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 ...
