Mad about Zines

Join Helen and Jill from MadZine research for a conversation about radical mental health zines.

MadZines are usually created by people with lived experience of mental ill-health, neurodiversity, psychosocial disability and/or other conditions that have been psychiatrised. They contain challenging insights into madness and distress and have the potential to counter prevailing psychological, psychiatric and medical understandings, diagnoses and treatments, and turn individual struggles into crucial issues for society.

In this event, MadZine will give a brief overview of their work followed by a conversation and Q&A hosted by Lea Cooper.

Bring along your questions, contributions and, of course, MadZines!

Funded by Wellcome, MadZine Research are based at the University of Central Lancashire.

Facilitator Bio:

Helen Spandler is professor of mental health studies at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLAN) and editor of Asylum: the radical mental health magazine.

Jill Anderson is a senior research fellow at UCLAN and on the editorial group of Asylum. We have an interest in critical approaches to mental health, locating our work within the emerging field of Mad Studies.

We work alongside Tamsin Walker, PhD student, and a team of MadZine collaborators.

Lea is a zine maker, artist, researcher and zine librarian. They have worked on various zine projects including Take It Back, exploring experiences of madness, mental illness, neurodivergence and mental health services.

Accessibility

This event will include: group discussions, film clips and visual presentations.

Please make any access requests in the "Your Comments" box when booking your ticket or email glasgowzinelibrary@gmail.com