Writing

Here is an evolving collection of writing by the MadZines project Team and our collaborators.

 

 

 

1. Blog posts by the Madzines team

Origins of Our Research –

Hel reflects on the rationale for the project and its aims.

Our MadZine Methodology

Hel and Jill outline our approach to the research.

Zine and Heard: a Conversation wtih Tamsin Walker

Jill and Tamsin discuss Tamsin’s PhD research.  See also also Tamsin’s Comic Strip Introduction  and her blog posts:

Can a Self Care Zine be a Mad Zine: a conversation with Meg John Barker

Hel and Meg John Barker discuss how Madzines and self care zines relate to one another

Madzines as Restorative Objects

Hel reflects on the power of zines as a potential medium for a restorative justice approach to psychiatric harm

Thinking through making: getting hands on with madzines

Jill reflects on what we have learned, on this project, through making zines ourselves.

 

2. Guest blogs by our MadZine collaborators

We have been fortunate to work with a wide range of fantastic partners, many of whom have written blog posts for us.

All zines are mental health zines – Hamja Ahsan

A Madzines workshop with real-life humans  – Lisa Archibald

Can a Self Care zine be a MadZineA Conversation with Meg-John Barker

Creating Mad Ancestries – Suzannah Scott-Moncrieff

Drawing the Invisible – Jac Batey

Erasing the face of god – Danny Taggart

Healing the Burdened psyche: one zine at a time – Tam Martin Fowles

How to be Subversive: an online workshop with Dolly Sen

How can we have creative and critical conversations about madness – Anna Stenning

Madzines and the Peer Support Movement – Oscar Patton-Lyons

Madzines as Social Materialism in Action –  the Not Alone Collective

My zine making journey – Kanade Koruzumi

Reclaiming craft, companionship and connection – Alex Dunedin

Revisiting Seamfulness – Paula Cameron

Tenderness as a tool: a Madzines workshop at the Feminist Library  – Tam Hart

The creative activity that might just change the world – Tam Martin Fowles

The Ethical Mathematics of Madzines – Rachel Rowan Olive

Zines: a Queer Method – Frances Williams

Zines and the Magic of Stick Figures – Tom Roberts

 

3. Articles 

Madzine Pedagogy: using zines in critical mental health learning and education.  Published in Social Work Education, 25 February 2025 [Online first]

This article explores how zines might be used as a medium for generating and communicating alternative forms of Mad-centered knowledge in diverse learning contexts.