Writing
Here is an evolving collection of writing by the MadZines project Team and our collaborators.
This page will be updated as our outputs develop. See also our own Zines.
Blog posts by members of the Madzines team
Hel reflects on the rationale for the project and its aims.
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 Tamsin’s Comic Strip Introduction
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
Tamsin explores zines and graphic memoirs from inside the experience of psychosis and dissociation. See also There and Not There: some thoughts on dissociation zines.
More than just Mad: Survivors as Knowers
Tamsin reflects on how Madzines enable survivors to articulate the knowledge that they hold.
Thinking through making: getting hands on with madzines
Jill reflects on what we have learned, on this project, through making zines ourselves.
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.
Guest blogs by our MadZine collaborators:
- The Ethical Mathematics of MadZines by Rachel Rowan Olive
- Reclaiming Craft, Companionship and Connection by Alex Dunedin
- All Zines are Mental Health Zines by Hamja Ahsan
- Drawing the Invisible by Jac Batey