Collective Liberation and Radical Mental Health How do privilege, oppression and collective liberation relate to radical mental health? How can we create communities that support our mental and emotional health as activists? Does the undertaking of collective liberation recognize diversity in mental health experience?
Problematic binary definitions of mental health experience (you're either "normal" or "crazy") are rampant in mainstream culture. The Icarus Project recognizes the multiplicities of mental health experience and strives to create a community that regards the range of diversity as something to be respected and even rejoiced in.
In this workshop, we will explore ways to promote safer spaces in our communities. We'll discuss the importance of sharing our personal stories, giving and receiving support, and building communities that are truly welcoming to all marginalized people. Using exercises like "Mad-Mapping" and skill-sharing, we'll collaboratively envision structures for mental and emotional support, and dialogue about why such strategies are vital to collective liberation.
Our Radical Mental Health as Activists Moderated discussion space to allow folks to air concerns, brain/heart storm and build solutions about how we support each other's mental health in radical and activist communities. Peer support is at the heart of The Icarus Project. Come and experience it with your peers at the USSF!
Liberación Colectiva y Salud Mental Radical How do privilege, oppression and collective liberation relate to radical mental health? How can we create communities that support our mental and emotional health as activists? Does the undertaking of collective liberation recognize diversity in mental health experience?
Problematic binary definitions of mental health experience (you're either "normal" or "crazy") are rampant in mainstream culture. The Icarus Project recognizes the multiplicities of mental health experience and strives to create a community that regards the range of diversity as something to be respected and even rejoiced in.
In this workshop, we will explore ways to promote safer spaces in our communities. We'll discuss the importance of sharing our personal stories, giving and receiving support, and building communities that are truly welcoming to all marginalized people. Using exercises like "Mad-Mapping" and skill-sharing, we'll collaboratively envision structures for mental and emotional support, and dialogue about why such strategies are vital to collective liberation.
Nuestra Salud Mental Radical como Activistas Moderated discussion space to allow folks to air concerns, brain/heart storm and build solutions about how we support each other's mental health in radical and activist communities. Peer support is at the heart of The Icarus Project. Come and experience it with your peers at the USSF!
The Icarus Project envisions a new culture and language that resonates with our actual experiences of 'mental illness' rather than trying to fit our lives into a conventional framework. We are a network of people living with and/or affected by experiences that are often diagnosed and labeled as psychiatric conditions. We believe these experiences are mad gifts needing cultivation and care, rather than diseases or disorders.
Icarus members come together on web forums and in local autonomous groups for mutual aid, skill-sharing, and community. Our stance on psychiatric medication is 100% pro-choice. We advocate a harm-reduction approach for those who want to come off meds.
By joining together as individuals and as a community, the intertwined threads of madness, creativity, and collaboration can inspire hope and transformation in an oppressive and damaged world. Participation in The Icarus Project helps us overcome alienation and tap into the true potential that lies between brilliance and madness.
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