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2026 Events
Schooling's impact, August 4, 2026 (online only).
Comedy? As in Mad Comedy? Really? July 7, 2026 (hybrid).
Carol Krause with mystical and Mad infused poetry, June 2, 2026 (hybrid).
Friendly Spike Theatre Band Tribute! May 5, 2026 (hybrid).
What's your paranormal, metaphysical, supernatural? April 7, 2026 (hybrid).
Living without a psych label, March 3, 2026 (hybrid).
Decompressing from the news, February 3, 2026 (hybrid).
Server error! January 6, 2026 (online only).
2025 Events
If we go in-person next year, what happens to Kukuchats? December 2, 2025 (online only).
Open mic nite, November 4, 2025 (online only).
The Mad life of dreams, daydreams, and waking dreams, October 7, 2025 (online only).
Dental and health care for people on ODSP and OW, September 2, 2025 (online only).
Food and nutrition! August 5, 2025 (online only).
AI's therapeutic promise, July 1, 2025 (online only).
Irit Shimrat and Rudi Leibik on BC getting even more tyranical, June 3, 2025 (online only).
What's love got to do with it? May 6, 2025 (online only).
Has social media changed us? April 1, 2025 (online only).
Is Mad Pride nationalistic? March 4, 2025 (online only).
Commiserating Trump's return, February 4, 2025 (online only).
Rob Wipond on problems with crisis lines, January 7, 2025 (online only).
2024 Events
Reparations for psychiatric eugenics, December 3, 2024 (online only).
Taking apart "mental health," November 5, 2024 (online only).
Feelings! October 1, 2024 (online only).
Elaine brings feminism to psych and iatrogenic harm, September 3, 2024 (online only).
Is there a supernatural world? August 6, 2024 (online only).
Hearing voices: Lui Bliss cohosting with Erick Fabris, July 2, 2024 (online only).
What to do when your friend says they're mentally ill? June 4, 2024 (online only).
Marijuana and psych, May 7, 2024 (online only).
Lauren Tenney on psych and slavery, April 2, 2024 (online only).
Psych in Palestine, March 5, 2024 (online only).
10 Years of Mad Stories and Crazy Talks! February 6, 2024 (online only).
Friendly Spike Theatre Band commemorates Ruth Ruth, January 2, 2024 (online only).
2023 Events
Open mic nite! December 5, 2023 (online only).
Mad comedy! November 7, 2023 (online only).
SSRIs and sexual dysfunction, October 3, 2023 (online only).
Henrik Kartna on group therapy, subject of his new play, September 5, 2023 (online only).
Getting psyched and bouncing back, August 1, 2023 (hybrid).
Faking sanity, July 4, 2023 (hybrid).
Mad psychs, June 6, 2023 (hybrid).
Marnie Wedlake, electroshock survivor and activist, May 2, 2023 (hybrid).
Mad fashion and style, April 4, 2023 (hybrid).
Canada rejects CRPD abolition of forced treatment, March 7, 2023 (hybrid).
How to thaw frozen hearts in deep winter, February 7, 2023 (hybrid).
Mad people and MAiD, January 3, 2023 (hybrid).
2022 Events
Erick Fabris re: Community Treatment Orders expansion, December 6, 2022 (hybrid).
Should Mad activists do like neurodiversity activists and self-diagnose? November 1, 2022 (online only).
Doin It Yourself (DIY): mad, bad, or just poverty? October 4, 2022 (online only).
Jim Gottstein on his book, The Zyprexa Papers, September 6, 2022 (online only).
What should we do with Mad Stories and Crazy Talks? August 2, 2022 (hybrid).
What happened to Mad Pride? July 5, 2022 (hybrid).
Entheogenic drugs like magic mushrooms and psych, June 7, 2022 (online only).
The past and Mad ancestry, May 3, 2022 (online only).
Mad television? Could it free our psyched minds? April 5, 2022 (online only).
Open topics, March 1, 2022 (online only).
Would psych prescribe beer if it was patented? February 1, 2022 (online only).
Diet, dieting, and psych, January 4, 2022 (online only).
2021 Events
Roxanne Stewart-Johnson on deaths from psychiatric drugs, December 7, 2021 (online only).
In memory of Don Weitz and other survivors who have passed on, October 5, 2021 (online only).
What do you want from political parties this election? September 7, 2021 (online only).
How is human trafficking reinforced by psych? November 2, 2021 (online only).
What about our discomforts, privileges and accountabilities? August 3, 2021 (online only).
Microchip snitch pills for "treatment adherence," July 6, 2021 (online only).
Lenny on encampments in Toronto, June 1, 2021 (online only).
When diagnoses become identities... May 4, 2021 (online only).
How do you deal with fearful events in your life? April 6, 2021 (online only).
What is Bill C-7 and how does it affect Mad people? March 2, 2021 (online only).
What is isolation and how do we deal with it? February 2, 2021 (online only).
Is distress too much for progressive social movements? January 5, 2021 (online only).
2020 Events
Crazy Food? December 1, 2020 (online only).
What to do about sanist language, November 3, 2020 (online only).
Ageism in psych, October 6, 2020 (online only).
Of Britney Spears and supportive decision making, September 1, 2020 (online only).
Roxanne Stewart-Johnson on our right to believe! August 4, 2020 (online only).
Defund the police, but don't fund more psych! July 7, 2020 (online only).
Going outside and staying safe, June 2, 2020 (online only).
UN calls for halt to involuntary psych on two fronts: CRPD and Covid-19, May 5, 2020 (online only).
Solidarity with psych inmates during coronavirus, April 7, 2020 (online due to Covid lockdown).
The stigmatizing of anti-stigma campaigns, March 3, 2020 (in person).
"55 Steps," a film about Eleanor Riese fighting forced treatment, starring Helen Bonham Carter and Hilary Swank (viewing and conversation), February 4, 2020 (in person).
Surviving sanism in 2020, January 7, 2020 (in person).
2019 Events
Dana McCool on astrology, divination and 'madness,' December 3, 2019 (in person).
Lui Bliss on Mindfreedom Toronto, November 5, 2019.
Ms Dally on ending drug dependencies, October 1, 2019.
Ruth Ruth (special guest host) on how to produce your own Mad creative productions, September 3, 2019.
Remembering friends and family who have passed on, August 6, 2019.
Mad Pride Live! Open mic led by Friendly Spike Theatre Band, July 2, 2019.
The whiteness of psych, June 4, 2019.
Will electroshock ever be banned? May 7, 2019.
Henrik Kartna on mental patients rights, April 2, 2019.
Dealing with angry people! And our own anger, March 5, 2019.
On our 5th Anniversary we ask "What is Mad?" February 5, 2019.
Crazy Talks coming on five years: suggestions anyone? January 1, 2019 (in person).
2018 Events
How we survive psych, December 4, 2018 (in person).
Honey Novick on un-muting the survivor voice, November 6, 2018.
Joy and fantasy in a Mad life, October 2, 2018.
What are we all doing about the Ford cuts to social assistance? September 4, 2018.
Is "mental health," "sanity," and "happiness" make believe? Our topic, August 7, 2018.
Kanye, Charlie and Britney: Mad stars or good ol' PR? our topic, July 3, 2018.
Mad people "dealing with media violence," our topic, June 5, 2018.
"Psychless Respite!" our topic by popular demand, May 1, 2018.
Theresa Burley on communities of practice, April 3, 2018.
Gaslighting and what to do about it, March 6, 2018.
Jeremiah Bach on ethics in psych and peer work, February 6, 2018.
claude wittman on income security and art, January 2, 2018 (in person).
2017 Events
Ellen Cohen on national survivor organizing, December 5, 2017 (in person).
Dana McCool and Tim Brown on Toronto Mad Pride Week, November 7, 2017.
Jai Mills on mad people's advocacy, October 3, 2017.
Henrik Kartna on his play about surveillance and psych, September 5, 2017.
Russell Rozenskis on representations of madness, suicide and sanism, August 1, 2017.
Diem Marchand-Lafortune on envy, gratitude and generosity, July 4, 2017.
Steve Hubel on peer support and psych systems, June 6, 2017.
Chris Hansen on Intentional Peer Support, May 2, 2017.
Kamal on holding our spaces, April 4, 2017.
Elizabeth Portman and Erick Fabris on Mad Canada Shadow Report, March 7, 2017.
Kevin Healey on the Hearing Voices Network, February 7, 2017.
Deb Quiggin on the Lakeshore Asylum Cemetery Project, January 3, 2017 (in person).
2016 Events
Emma W. Ardal on madness, humour and social change, December 6, 2016 (in person).
Kevin Jackson on cross-disability activism and creating Mad spaces, November 1, 2016.
Rick Sin on Asian men's experiences with Canadian mental health, October 4, 2016.
Laura Delano going off psych labels and meds, September 6, 2016.
Jewelles Smith on mothering with psychosocial disabilities, August 2, 2016.
Dally M Sanchez on traumatic experiences and transformations, July 5, 2016.
Henrik Kartna on his stage play, physical illness, and survivor politics, June 7, 2016.
Liz Gilarowski on surveillance culture and feminist resistance, May 3, 2016.
Irit Shimrat on allies and resistance, April 5, 2016.
Elaine Stewart on madness, mothering and creativity, March 1, 2016.
Emma Heath-Engel on hearing/seeing thoughts, February 2, 2016.
Saraƒin on "Asylum Squad" and "Psychosis Diaries" webcomics, January 5, 2016 (in person).
2015 Events
Shandra Spears Bombay on intergenerational injury and creative antiracism, December 1, 2015 (in person).
Ruth Ruth and the Friendly Spike Theatre Band on 25 years of psychiatric survivor theatre, November 3, 2015.
John Mackenzie on memory and living beyond the ward, October 6, 2015.
Richard Ingram, PhD, on post-sanism, September 1, 2015.
Lauren Tenney on how psych occludes spirituality in madness, August 4, 2015.
Fiona Seth screens her video on isolation/confinement, "Pink Like Salmon," July 7, 2015.
Christine on psychoanalytic psychotherapy and how survivors can protect themselves, June 2, 2015.
Tina Minkowitz on the UN's CRPD and the rights of people with psychosocial disabilities, May 5, 2015.
Preetha Stephen on varying coercions inside local psych wards, April 7, 2015.
Louise Bark on forensic psychiatry and its abuses, March 3, 2015.
Don Weitz on psychiatric oppression. Toronto, February 3, 2015 (in person).
2014 Events
Mad Stories and Crazy Talks were held in Montreal, Vancouver, and Toronto in 2014 (in person only).