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We strive to create spaces and tools for critical reflection, collective learning, and solidarity, with the ultimate goal of strengthening disability organising.
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We are here to reclaim ‘Mad Thinking’ and help build the world so many of us, across time and geography, have dreamed and worked towards. We cannot wait to do this with you.
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By Alberto Vásquez Over a decade, Users and Survivors of Psychiatry Kenya (USP-Kenya) grew from a small, largely voluntary initiative into a highly visible organisation of people with psychosocial disabilities. It connected peer-support groups across several Kenyan counties with national…
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Can we reform systems that harm, control, and oppress people or do we need to imagine and build a different world? For centuries, people resisting slavery, colonialism, prisons, psychiatry, institutionalisation, state violence, and other systems of punishment and control have…
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Starting on 27 May, we are launching a 3-part webinar series that will bring together activists from diverse movements and regions to explore and share their thoughts, experiences, and practices of abolitionist politics. “As a society, we have long turned…