Learning from Mad Knowledge – a trip to Cork
Jill Anderson from the MadZines team attended the Critical Voices Conference in Cork in November. The theme this year was ‘CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON LEARNING FROM MAD KNOWLEDGE’.
Creating Mad Ancestries by Suzannah Scott-Moncrieff
In September 2023, Tamsin Walker and Hel Spandler facilitated a madzines workshop at the International Creative Research Methods Conference in Manchester. One of the workshop participants, Suzannah Scott-Moncrieff, explains how zine-making put her in touch with her mad ancestry.
All Zines are Mental Health Zines
Hamja Ahsan has been actively involved in zine subcultures since the mid 1990’s. Hel interviewed him about his reflections on zine cultures and radical mental health zines.
There and not-there: some thoughts on dissociation zines – by Tamsin Walker
Over the last few years our Madzines PhD researcher, Tamsin Walker, has been accumulating quite a collection of zines that are about, or at least touch on, dissociation. In this blog she reflects on ones that challenge common misconceptions about this experience.
Healing the Burdened Psyche, One Zine at a Time – by Tam Martin Fowles
In this guest blog, Tam Martin Fowles continues to reflect on the surprising healing qualities of her recent foray into zine-making, and highlights the power of respectful witnessing.