Writing
Here is an evolving collection of writing by the MadZines project Team and our collaborators.
1. Blog posts by 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 also Tamsin’s Comic Strip Introduction and her blog posts:
- From Inside the Experience [Tamsin explores zines and graphic memoirs from inside the experience of psychosis and dissociation]
- 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.
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 MadZine? A 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.