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Mad Thinking works to build stronger, sustainable, and inclusive disability movements by creating spaces, tools, and opportunities to strengthen power, leadership, solidarity, and organisational capacity.

14/10/2026

Beyond “Burnout”: What do we do with all this exhaustion?

📅 Thursday, 29 October 2026
🕒 3:00–5:00 PM CET

There is a growing sense of exhaustion, stress, and despair among people involved in organising and movement work. This reflects the conditions we are organising under: escalating crises, repression, precarity, and growing demands on our time and energy. Although organisations and movements are beginning to take note and respond, those responses often remain within the spheres of mental health care, the wellness industry, and individual self-care. Therapy, rest, wellness days, and self-care can all have value. But are they enough for conditions that are structural and political?

In our next , we want to explore what this means for collective care. How is "burnout" showing up in our organising? What frameworks shape the ways movements understand and respond to exhaustion and distress and the conditions which cause them? What lessons and tools from Mad, disabled and other social justice movements can help us to challenge unsustainable conditions and at the same time, care for our communities?

This time, there will be no guest speaker. Instead, we will use the two hours for an open, informal conversation, drawing on the experiences, practices, and knowledge already present in our communities.

Register for : https://zoom.us/meeting/register/4mSP_GH2Qzue0TDAZVlasg #/registration

16/09/2026

‘Pirate Care’: Defying criminalisation, acting in solidarity. A conversation with Tomislav Medak

📅 24 September 2026
⏰ 3:00–5:00 pm CEST

What happens when caring for one another means breaking the rules? From rescuing refugees at sea, to making gender-affirming medications in response to transphobic restrictions, to providing abortions where reproductive rights are criminalised, activists around the world are building practices of care, solidarity and resistance in contexts where care itself is restricted or criminalised.

At our next , we’ll be joined by Tomislav Medak, co-author of ‘Pirate Care: Acts Against the Criminalization of Solidarity’, a commons and disability activist, and an independent researcher.

In the first hour, we’ll talk with Tomislav about why “pirate” and “care” are together in the title, some of the struggles explored in the book, and what it means to build pathways of defiance through mutual care. In the second hour, we’ll open our community meet-up space to think together about what pirate care might look like in our own movements and communities — and dream up our own ways of becoming pirate carers.

If you are not registered for yet, register here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/4mSP_GH2Qzue0TDAZVlasg #/registration

20/08/2026

Join us for this month's : Organising from afar: Activism by exiled, diaspora, and immigrant communities

📅 27 August 2026
⏰ 3:00–5:00 PM CEST

Activists and organisers leave "home" for many reasons—some are forced into exile, others move for reasons unrelated to activism, and others are born in countries they never fully feel part of. To organise from afar is to live in liminal spaces—between the home you left and the home you live in.

What does organising look like from exile, diaspora, or migration? How do the reasons for leaving, political changes back home, and distance from the grassroots shape your choices? What happens to questions of legitimacy, belonging, and the personal experience of living away from "home"?

Come to share your experiences, or simply listen. You're also welcome to bring a poem, quote, or piece of art that speaks to you.

If you are not registered for yet, register here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/4mSP_GH2Qzue0TDAZVlasg #/registration

12/08/2026

Organising from afar: Activism by exiled, diaspora, and immigrant communities

📅 27 August 2026
⏰ 3:00–5:00 PM CEST

Activists and organisers leave ‘home’ for many reasons—some are forced into exile, others cross borders for reasons unrelated to their activism, and yet others are born in countries they never truly feel part of. To organise from afar is to live in liminal spaces—between the home you left and the home you live in.

What modes of engagement with organising are available for activists living in exile or as immigrants? How are these shaped by the reasons you left or had to leave? How do political changes in your home country shape the decisions you make? How do you keep your connections to the grassroots, if that is possible at all? Do any of these affect perceptions of legitimacy as an activist? How does all of this collide with the personal experience of living away from ‘home’?

This month's will be a little different: no formal speaker, no Q&A. The whole two hours (with a break) will be a group conversation on the realities of organising from afar—the emotional toll, the strategic choices, the challenges, and the possibilities.

Join us if you want to share or hear about these experiences. Feel free to bring poems, quotes, or art that speak to you and that you might want to share with others.

If you are not registered for yet, register here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/4mSP_GH2Qzue0TDAZVlasg #/registration

11/08/2026

❝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 advocacy and international human rights work.

Recently, someone familiar with USP-Kenya’s work asked me how the organisation was doing. When I explained that it was no longer active, their immediate response was: “What happened?”

This case study asks precisely that: what happened to USP-Kenya, what made its work so influential, why the organisation could not sustain its momentum, and what its experience can teach other grassroots organisations seeking not only to grow but also to endure.❞

Read the full story on our website: https://madthinking.org/2026/08/07/what-happened-to-usp-kenya-the-challenge-of-sustaining-an-organisation-through-rapid-growth/

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Feature image: Members of a peer support group in rural Kenya. Source: USP-Kenya (X/Twitter).

27/07/2026

Don't miss this week's !

Join us and Christo El Morr for a timely conversation on how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the economy, warfare, surveillance, and information landscapes—and what it means for disabled people.

📅 30 July 2026
🕒 3:00–4:00 PM CEST / 9:00–10:00 AM EDT

International Sign and CART captioning provided

Register here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/4mSP_GH2Qzue0TDAZVlasg #/registration

22/07/2026

Artificial intelligence (AI) is already reshaping our world. But who is shaping AI and whose interests does it serve?

Join us for the next hashtag , a conversation with Christo El Morr about artificial intelligence and what these changes mean for disabled people.

We will explore AI’s impact on work, healthcare, surveillance, warfare, information, and decision-making, and ask how we can respond critically to it.

📅 30 July 2026
🕒 3:00–4:00 PM CEST / 9:00–10:00 AM EDT

An informal community meet-up will follow the conversation. International Sign interpretation and CART captioning will be provided.

Register here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/4mSP_GH2Qzue0TDAZVlasg #/registration

08/07/2026

How AI Is Reshaping Our World: A Conversation with Christo El Morr

📅 30 July 2026
🕒 3:00–4:00 PM CEST / 9:00–10:00 AM EDT

Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer science fiction or a technology of the future. It is here, and it is changing how we work, how we produce and consume information, and how decisions are made across society. From tech moguls to human rights activists, everyone agrees on one thing: we need to talk about AI.

This conversation will explore what AI actually is, how it works, and what it means for disabled people. We will discuss how its use—and misuse—is transforming the economy, warfare, surveillance, and information landscapes.

Will AI take our jobs? Will unemployment skyrocket? Will it lead to a "dead internet" where most online content is produced and consumed by bots? Will it replace decision-makers in areas such as healthcare, criminal justice, and warfare? Who decides how AI is designed and used, and who benefits from it?

If you have been asking these questions, join us for the latest hashtag session.

In this session, hosted by Mad Thinking, we will be joined by Christo El Morr, Professor of Health Informatics and Director of the Centre for Feminist Research at York University in Toronto. His research focuses on equity, artificial intelligence, and justice. Beyond his scientific work, Christo is also an Arabic-language novelist, poet, and theologian.

As always, an informal meet-up will follow the discussion. International Sign interpretation and CART captioning will be provided.

Register here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/4mSP_GH2Qzue0TDAZVlasg #/registration

07/07/2026

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 asked this question. Today, it remains as urgent as ever.

Over the past few weeks, we explored this question and more through "Building a New World: An Invitation to Abolitionist Thinking," a three-part webinar series organised by Mad Thinking. Across the series, we were joined by Stephanie Davis, Priya Raghavan, Stefanie Lyn Kaufman-Mthimkhulu, Kokila Annamalai, Ari Lutzker, and Chelsea A. Jackson. Together, they explored abolition as a political tradition, a framework for understanding interconnected systems of harm, and a practical commitment to building alternatives rooted in care, solidarity, and collective liberation.

We've now published a reflection that brings together key insights and lessons from those conversations. Like the webinar series as a whole, it reflects on crucial questions: What are we trying to abolish? Why abolition rather than reform? What are we trying to build? And how do we get there?

You'll also find links to the recordings of all three sessions: https://madthinking.org/2026/07/06/an-invitation-to-abolitionist-thinking-reflections-on-our-webinar-series/

Image: Protesters at a Black Lives Matter march hold a banner with the definition of “abolition”. Credit: Barry Chin (The Boston Globe).

18/06/2026

Direct Action and Disability: Lessons from South Korea.
A conversation with Kyung Seok Park

📅 25 June 2026
🕒 3:00–4:00 PM CEST / 9:00–10:00 AM EDT / 10:00–11:00 PM KST

For more than two decades, disability activists in South Korea have used direct action to challenge exclusion and demand change. From occupying a cathedral bell tower in support of deinstitutionalisation to highly visible protests on the Seoul subway system, activists have used disruption to force disability rights onto the national agenda.

In this , hosted by Mad Thinking, we will be joined by Kyung Seok Park, co-representative of Solidarity Against Disability Discrimination (SADD). We will explore how SADD emerged, why it embraced direct action as a strategy, what it has achieved, and the tensions and challenges that have accompanied its campaigns. What can disability movements elsewhere learn from the South Korean experience?

As always, an informal community meet-up space will follow this discussion.

International Sign, CART, and English–Korean interpretation will be provided.

Register here: https://shorturl.at/1nT9w

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