Click on the link to see details of past reading groups:
*Upcoming* 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.
Melbourne Mad Studies Network 