Asylum Magazine
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The radical mental health magazine. Been around since 1986. Distributed by PCCS Books Sharing does not equal endorsement. Email: editors@asylummagazine.org Website: https://asylummagazine.org
Tomorrow we come together online to discuss what solidarity between the mad, disabled and migrant justice movements could look, and how we can work together to push back against efforts to pit us against each other. 4-5.30pm, sign up below. www.nsun.org.uk/news/borders...
Borders, migration and mental health (with Brian Dikoff & Francesca Humi)
How do people experiencing mental ill-health navigate the immigration system? How does immigration policy seek to create distress?
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“We have to free half of the human race, the women, so that they can help to free the other half.” - Emmeline Pankhurst. UK suffragette arrested, 1914 #womensart #Tuesday
So sad to hear of the death of Bonnie Greer, novelist, broadcaster and hugely inspiration woman. She was a great supporter of this Womensart project & WA books and our chats will be cherished always. A true intellectual & beautiful person. RIP xx
@asylummagazine.bsky.social thanks for promoting #WorldHearingVoicesDay. Hearing voices can be found in the general population and might be considered as a feature of everyday experience for some people. #endstimga.
everyone @asylummagazine.bsky.social’s new issue is out!!!!! go subscribe and read new work in the premier and oldest still continuous Mad publication. asylummagazine.org/subscribe/
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Another sample article from the Summer 2026 issue of @asylummagazine.bsky.social asylummagazine.org/2026/06/too-...
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Sample article from the Summer 2026 issue of @asylummagazine.bsky.social asylummagazine.org/2026/06/unhe...
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"NEUROMANCERS exists because of platforms like Asylum magazine, a cultural centre for mad & neurodivergent minds, documenting the rich history of our movements" Aiyanna Goodfellow, founder of NEUROMANCERS
Asylum Magazine@asylummagazine.bsky.social · last mo.The Autumn 2026 Special Issue of @asylummagazine.bsky.social is out! ❤️
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Six DWP reports show exactly why so many young disabled people are not in work, education or training
Six government research reports have provided strong evidence of the huge barriers that prevent many young disabled people from moving into work, training or education. They show that – contrary to…
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you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no... Please sign and share 🙏
No Cuts to Social Care for Disabled People
Disabled people have already borne the brunt of austerity cuts over the past 16 years including huge cuts to the health element of Universal Credit that began in April this year. We demand that the c...
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Mind Mental Health in the Age of AI Call for Evidence
Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming part of more people's everyday lives, including how some people access information, support and advice about their mental health. As AI technology develops, i...
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stopoxevision.com/2026/08/17/l... A really poignant piece
Lampard Inquiry July 2026 hearings about vision based monitoring (Oxevision/LIO): a summary - Stop Oxevision
Stop Oxevision is a lived experience campaign against the use of video surveillance, CCTV and Oxevision (also known as Oxehealth, LIO or LIO Health) in psychiatric hospitals
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www.historyworkshop.org.uk/disability-h... The significance and function of mental health survivor zines
From the Personal to the Political and Back Again?
Hel Spandler explores the evolution of madzines and considers why they should be recognised as a form of activism.
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NSUN's September Mad Campaigns Lab will explore borders, migration and mental health. Join us online on September 16th to hear organisers Brian Dikoff and Francesca Humi discuss how immigration policy seeks to create distress, and what we can do about it www.nsun.org.uk/news/borders...
Borders, migration and mental health (with Brian Dikoff & Francesca Humi)
How do people experiencing mental ill-health navigate the immigration system? How does immigration policy seek to create distress?
nsun.org.uk
At height of council building, in 1950s, councils built on average around 147,000 homes a year. In past 10 yrs councils have averaged building around 1,400 homes a year www.local.gov.uk/topics/housi... 70K over 10 yrs (7k pa) is way below need but a considerable increase on dire current levels.
More than 70,000 social and affordable homes to be built across England over 10 years
Funding has been granted to Greater Manchester, the West Midlands and West Yorkshire as well as £6bn for London.
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Merrick Daniel Pilling is an Interim Co-Director of the School of Disability Studies at Toronto Metropolitan University. He joins us to explain how Mad Studies moves from first-person knowledge to questions of sanism, psychiatric authority, and collective resistance. buff.ly/LTspzSs
Mad Studies Is More Than Lived Experience: An Interview with Merrick Daniel Pilling
Pilling explains how Mad Studies moves from first-person knowledge to questions of sanism, psychiatric authority, mutual aid, and collective resistance.
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“He worked tirelessly to inspire all students from marginalised backgrounds to believe that academia could also belong to them. He did not inspire one or two people to do a PhD; there are dozens of us over generations who have dreamed and are now doctors and soon-to-be professors because of him.”
Tens of thousands pay tribute to Jason Arday at Trafalgar Square vigil
MPs, friends and campaigners gathered to remember former Cambridge professor after his death on Friday
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