Forced drugging, psychiatric incarceration, and barbaric treatments like ECT regularly transform the life chances of people of all ages. The dreams of mad, mentally ill, and neurodivergent folks are disappeared, our futures stolen—all under the guise of treatment. We deserve the right to vision a future unclouded by our supposed pathology. We also deserve to expand our treatment options beyond toxic medications and procedures and into collective holistic care.

Visualizing mad & magical futures is a 2-hour interactive workshop that explores what a life without the medical model could look like. Discussion questions encourage attendees to vision their own mad & magical futures and share their imaginings with others. The workshop includes a brief history of the medical model, an explanation of the biosociometaphysical model, and practices for enacting collective holistic care in our day-to-day lives.

What if mad & neurodivergent realities were dominant realities? What if the “crazies” led the world?

Synthesizing sociological theory, Black feminism, Afrofuturism, queer theory, and magic, Magical depressive realism is a six-hour, three-part series that lays out the case for mad & neurodivergent realities overthrowing consensus reality.

Sick & disabled, mad, and neurodivergent folks know what it’s like to live through the end of the world. We resurrect ourselves so many times, from so many small deaths, and rarely get the chance to deeply process all we’ve lost. Every day we survive in a world that is actively trying to kill us may be an act of defiance, but we still grapple with complicated feelings like grief around the loss of an ideal future self, loss of independence, and loss of relationships. When we share our experiences, it can lighten the load and help us realize we are not alone or abnormal.

These small deaths will kill us is a 2-hour guided discussion workshop for Mad, Mentally Ill, and Neurodivergent folks as well as sick/chronically ill, Deaf, Blind, and disabled folks who are seeking strategies for working with grief around their condition(s), peer support, and camaraderie.

Femme labor makes the queer world go ‘round. From intimate partnerships to event planning, femmes are often expected to manage care work simultaneously with managerial and administrative tasks. When we burn out and break down, the care we poured into our community is too often not available for us. Mad, neurodivergent, and mentally ill femmes are left to struggle with caring for themselves while shouldering the same burdens of community and family. We experience difficulties with access to culturally competent mental health services and discrimination by providers, and we regularly go without the support we need to maintain our mental health.

My kind of crazy is a guided discussion workshop meant to provide a source of peer support and camaraderie for femmes who are mad, mentally ill, or neurodivergent (MMIND). Through a series of discussion questions, we explore identity, community, relationships, and experiences with treatment professionals and medication. Resources are provided for further exploration of topics and direction to support services.