Living In Between: Interview with Icarus Co-Founder Jacks
I recently had the great pleasure of speaking with Jacks Ashley McNamara about writing and creativity, madness and identity, activism and survival. Jacks is a genderqueer writer, artist, activist, and...
View ArticleMad Maps: Building Trails to Where We Want to Be, Input Needed
For many years, members of The Icarus project have been imagining maps and roads and labyrinths that would lead us in our journey and ground us in the moment. These have been called “wellness maps” or...
View ArticleA Garden with Forking Paths: pushing back against a new fundamentalism in...
We’ve made a lot of progress over the last decade in the coalition of recovery and radical mental health movements. Now it’s time to work harder to embrace a diversity of experiences and perspectives...
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On Being a Rad, Mad, Queer Mama, by Nina Packebush
Being “crazy” makes parenthood a uniquely dangerous thing, add on being queer, or a person of color, or poor, or too young, or in any way marginalized and being a “crazy” parent ups the danger...
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View ArticleFilm Review: The Inmates Are Running the Asylum
Set in the time of mass de-institutionalization of psychiatric patients, the Mental Patients Association (MPA) emerged in Vancouver at the start of the 1970s. This 36-minute documentary film, produced...
View ArticlePoll: Oppression and Discrimination in Health Care
The Icarus Project is looking for volunteers to work as a focus group in analyzing the intersection of madness and oppression for our upcoming Mad Mapping guide. If you are navigating, or have...
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Mad Maps: Paths to Personal Transformation and Collective Liberation
Mad Maps are documents that we create for ourselves as reminders of our goals, what is important to us, our personal signs of struggle and our strategies for self-determined well-being. Though...
View ArticleMad Rad Crisis Intervention Team Training
What happens when people who have lived experience of police intervention in crisis, and the trauma that often comes with such interventions, sit down to talk with law enforcement officers who are...
View ArticleMutual Aid: Local Group Reportbacks
To support, encourage, and inspire mutual aid, a few people have mentioned that it might be really awesome to periodically feature the work of some local groups and allied support networks on the...
View ArticleAction needed to help stop forced-drugging bill TODAY
In a matter of hours the Senate is set to vote on HR 4320, a Medicare bill which contains a provision that would subject people in crisis to court-ordered forced drugging (euphemistically termed...
View ArticleLove and Homeopathics: Mental Health, Community Care, and the Political...
Dissociation: Trapped in Your BodyImagine you are standing with your head poking out of a little tent, alone in an enormous open clearing, in the middle of a raging hurricane. There’s almost no space...
View ArticleThrowback Thursday: Anarchic Coordinates of Bipolar Worlds
Back in the early days of Icarus, Jacks and I compiled all kinds of brilliant musings and visions from Icarus Project community forum members. We were trying to chart new territory beyond the...
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Throwback Thursday: “Why do we keep talking about ‘Consumers’? We’re not...
This week for Throwback Thursday I’m dredging up an old post from when I was the Icarus representative at a SAMHSA meeting in Washington DC and we made a bunch of new movement friends. This was around...
View ArticleOn Finding My Tribe, and Thinking for Myself
This week for Throwback Thursday I'm digging up a classic piece by Leah Harris, who now works for the National Empowerment Center and just wrote this piece, Defeating Goliath: Mental Health is a Social...
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Whisper Rapture: Bonfire Madigan Shive and Ken Paul Rosenthal on Cultivating...
Folks who have been involved with the radical mental health movement for a while are likely familiar with filmmaker Ken Paul Rosenthal’s work. His film Crooked Beauty has helped to tell the story of...
View ArticleReportback from The Website Team
The website of The Icarus Project is roughly a decade old, has largely not been funded and has been the digital duct tape that has held the online community together in marvelous ways. A new web team...
View ArticleReportback from The Website Team
The website of The Icarus Project is roughly a decade old, has largely not been funded and has been the digital duct tape that has held the online community together in marvelous ways. A new web team...
View ArticleMad Pride, Creative Maladjustment, and Mad Cartographies
The Icarus Project has long been associated with the Mad Pride movement, though individual members may or may not associate themselves with the word Mad, or feel any particular sense of pride in...
View ArticleSurvey: Mad Parenting
Recently The Icarus Project reached out to its community with a series of surveys asking for input on the creation of a Mad Maps Project. Mad Maps are reminder documents we create for ourselves, and...
View ArticleCurrent Project: Community-Based Participatory Research and Icarus Local Groups
"I would like to learn more about the ways members are working individually and collectively to carve out creative spaces for thinking differently about mental health, some strengths and challenges...
View ArticleGallery Gachet, The Icarus Project, and Mad Pride 2014: Reportback from the...
From the sidewalk, standing at the door, a person cannot see the details of the work that is displayed there, or notice the how the pictures and drawings in the current show, Mad Cartographies:...
View ArticleSurvey: Mad Parenting
Parenthood can be a uniquely isolating experience under the best of circumstances, but for those of us from underrepresented groups within the dominant culture, parenthood can be fraught with, what...
View ArticleLast Call: Madness and Oppression Art Show
The Icarus Project will be launching a new digital gallery on our site showcasing visual art that explores the themes of "Madness and Oppression: Resistance and Resilience." If you'd like your artwork...
View ArticleLast Call: Madness and Oppression Art Show
The Icarus Project will be launching a new digital gallery on our site showcasing visual art that explores the themes of "Madness and Oppression: Resistance and Resilience." If you'd like your artwork...
View ArticleCall for Stories: Intergenerational Trauma, Oppression, Hope and Resilience
We want to hear your stories. We are looking for stories about dealing, struggling, and coping with intergenerational trauma, oppression, or both. We aim to receive stories that can share the pain of...
View ArticleThe Icarus Project is Hiring a National Organizer
The National Organizer will be part of a staff collective and will be responsible for supporting and developing a grassroots radical mental health network. The National Organizer is also responsible...
View ArticleThe Golden Thread: Leaving trails through our personal labyrinths
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View ArticleChristmas Solidarity Art Drive
I am reaching out to you all from Buenos Aires, Argentina and I am writing to ask you to consider donating art materials you don't need/don't use anymore so the fabulous arists at Frente de Artistas...
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