Click on the link to see details of past reading groups:
***UPCOMING*** June 2023 (online) reading group: Narrating suicidality
May 2023 (online) reading group: Soteria style community houses in Australia
April 2023 (online) reading group: Madness in Music
March 2023 (online) reading group: Mad-created and co-created clinical training and services
February 2023 (online) reading group: Legal Challenges to Human Rights Violations
January 2023 (online) reading group: Madness and Literature
December 2022 (online) reading group: End of year social catch up
November 2022 (online) reading group: Cancelled due to illness
October 2022 (online) reading group: Madness, capacity, and significant life decisions
September 2022 (online) reading group: The Intersection of Mad Studies and the Academy
August 2022 (online) reading group: Thinking about suicide
July 2022 (online) reading group: Love and Madness
June 2022 (online) reading group: Complex roles and identities in mental health research
May 2022 (online) reading group: Challenges to Mad Activism
April 2022 (online) reading group: Coming out as Mad in the academy
March 2022: no reading group
February 2022 (online) reading group: Lived and living experience in the workplace
December 2021 (online) reading group: Sincerely Survivor – Film Discussion (and social catch up for end of year)
November 2021 (online) reading group: Restorative Justice and the Mental Health System
***Postponed*** October 2021 (online) reading group: Film club – Sincerely Survivor
September 2021 (online) reading group: Trans and Gender Diverse Experiences of Pathologisation and Madness
August 2021 (online) reading group: When therapy does harm
July 2021 (online) reading group: Cultivating spaces for sharing to change the mental health system
June 2021 (online) reading group: Fat and Mad: thinking critically about medicalising our bodies and minds
May 2021 (online) reading group: Madness and Neurodiversity
April 2021 (online) reading group: Women’s activism in consumer/survivor/ex-patient spaces
March 2021 (online) reading group: Madness and Neo-liberalism
February 2021 (online) reading group: Madness and the experience of pregnancy/childbirth
January 2021 (online) reading group: The language of mental health and illness
November 2020 (online) reading group: Gender bias in psychiatry
October 2020 (online) reading group: Alternative models of non-carceral crisis support for mental and emotional distress
September 2020 (online) reading group: Mad Studies’ relationship to abolition movements – are prisons the ‘new asylums’?
August 2020 (online) reading group: Preventing the co-option of Mad Studies
July 2020 (online) reading group: What role for allies in Mad Studies?
March 2020 (in person) reading group: Epistemic Injustice and Madness
November 2019 (in person) reading group: Thinking differently about suicide
October 2019 (in person) reading group: Reclaiming experiences from the language of “mental health” (week)
September 2019 (in person) reading group: Madly sustaining ourselves and our work
August 2019 (in person) inaugural reading group: Mad people’s knowledge in academia
Other Events:
Mad Reflections on the Mental Health and Wellbeing Act Update and Engagement Paper
Date: Tuesday 29th June
Time: 7-8.30pm AEST (Melbourne time)
Read more about this event here

Mad Reflections on the Royal Commission Final Report
Date: Tuesday, 9th March
Time: 7-8.30pm AEST (Melbourne time)
Read more about this event here.

Launch of RMIT Mad Studies Network & Our Consumer Place’s Mad Studies ‘Conversation Starters’
Thursday 27th June, 6.00-7.30pm
Our Community House, 552 Victoria St, North Melbourne, VIC 3051
Speakers: Flick Grey, Dr Chris Maylea, Kath Thorburn
Our Consumer Place‘s ‘Mad Studies Conversation Starters’, compiled by Flick Grey in partnership with Merinda Epstein, is now available here.

