blefrancois
Poet, writer, educator
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Mad Studies, Critical Disability Studies, all things cats
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Mad Studies
For those engaged in Mad Studies, in the community or in the academy.
@newleftreview.bsky.social
Left-wing journal of ideas covering world politics, global economy, movements, theory, history, culture and more. Website: https://newleftreview.org
@djno.ca
Creating a world where people with disabilities are free to be. - Website: http://djno.ca - Support: info@djno.ca - Media: media@djno.ca - DJNOntario on all other platforms incl. linktr.ee/djnontario We also run enablingjustice.com!
@theguardian.com
The need for independent journalism has never been greater. Become a Guardian supporter https://support.theguardian.com 🇺🇸 Guardian US https://bsky.app/profile/us.theguardian.com 🇦🇺 Guardian Australia https://bsky.app/profile/australia.theguardian.com
@maddiebrockbank.bsky.social
she/her | PhD(c) @Mac_SW. @SSHRC_CRSH Vanier Scholar. @WilsonLeaders Alum. studying GBV prevention with men, anti-carceral feminism, & more 🤠👻📚⚽️🐶🐾🧐🪼🪩💜
@ameil-joseph.bsky.social
Associate Professor, School of Social Work, McMaster University. #racism #mentalhealth #migration #criminalization #anticolonial ameilj@mcmaster.ca 🇬🇾
@richardmedh.bsky.social
Brit in Yokohama, translator at https://www.nippon.com/en/ Translator of The Essential Akutagawa (Sep 2025) Interested in Japanese language, literature, and history.
@ehunterchristie.bsky.social
Senior Research Fellow, FIIA @fiia.fi Adjunct lecturer, Sciences Po PSIA Former NATO official PhD VUB & Royal Military Academy of Belgium Views my own
@dranamorphosis.bsky.social
Mad studies in conversation with psychiatry & religious studies. Also #Celt #indyref2 #psychedelics. https://independent.academia.edu/RichardSavilleSmith Isle of Skye Book: Acute Religious Experiences: Madness, Psychosis & Religious Studies (Bloomsbury)
@spinplatescare.bsky.social
Visit our website here: https://sites.google.com/sheffield.ac.uk/tired-of-spinning-plates/home Visit our exhibition here: https://carermhspinningpla.wixsite.com/spinplatesexhibition #Coproduction #MentalHealth #FamilyCarers #LearningDisability
@jenrinaldi.bsky.social
Legal studies associate professor | queercrip theorist | committed to deinstitutionalization and prison and police abolition | she/her
@hazelmarzetti.bsky.social
Suicide researcher at the University of Edinburgh working on suicide prevention, speecialising in LGBTQ+ suicide and qualitative methods. She/her 🏳️🌈
@richardnicholls.net
He/Him, Podcaster, Award Winner, Liberal Lefty Humanist, Husband and Dad, Dancing Animal, 75% caffeine. Best Selling Author etc. richardnicholls.net/links
@janeemcallaghan.bsky.social
Violence, gender, mental health, #domesticabuse #IPV #childhood. Psychologist. Associate Dean for Research #ADR. Dogs. Cats. Hiking. Crafts. Professor. Mother. Adoptive Scot (never leaving). Trustee FV Rape Crisis. Personal social media. Bi. She/they.
@radams1.bsky.social
Drop out historian. Bandwagon Bills Fan. I read too much philosophy. Still interested in disability, mad studies, med humanities, etc.
@ajwithers.bsky.social
Organizer and academic, mostly carceral housing, homelessness, disability, trans issues. RWW Jr. Chair in Gener, Sexuality & Women's Studies at SFU. Settler on occupied, unceeded Coast Salish territory.
@carole56.bsky.social
@afromantic.bsky.social
troublemaker, lovemaker, philosopher, fever dreamer, afromancer, black studies prof @uofmaryland, fellow @stanford. i'll teach you how to go mad without losing your mind. ✊🏾🌈 https://www.dukeupress.edu/how-to-go-mad-without-losing-your-mind
@anticapitalistmusings.com
Politics with https://anticapitalistresistance.org/ and blogging at https://anticapitalistmusings.com/ and books at https://resistancebooks.org/
@anticapitalistresistance.org
Ecosocialist • Revolutionary • Internationalist https://linktr.ee/anticapitalistresistance Visit anticapitalistresistance.org to join
@radicaltwilight.bsky.social
they/she feral boygirl thing philosophical idealist & marxist (good luck figuring that one out)
@paulcrofts.bsky.social
Socialist, anti-fascist, anti-racist, Marxist, grumpy old man. Supports equality, Critical Race Theory, Palestine, LGBTQ+, a Women's Right to Choose, workers rights and the end of capitalism. Not much to ask for really. 😎✊🏾
@drsinclair.bsky.social
Psychoanalyst in private practice who works with people internationally. Host of Rendering Unconscious Podcast. https://linktr.ee/rawsin_
@jillhemmington.bsky.social
AMHP training/CPD; AMHP; Empowering Mental Health Act conversation; AMHP evidence-base; #PractitionerResearch; #AMHPResearch; #AMHPLeadsNetwork; #criticalamhp
@kira-aislinn.bsky.social
AMS Postdoc in the history of medicine, uOttawa. Creative writer & public historian. Interested in Canadian history, childhood, disability, historical fiction, and mad studies.
@lisamorriss.bsky.social
Academic @ Sociology Lancaster, PI Keeping Mothers in Mind. Interested in Hope, Motherhood, Mental Health, Futures, Ghosts, Archives, Loss, Tattoos
@profkrc.bsky.social
#mothering #disability #education #SocialCare #activism #PeakDistrict - Professor of Education, she/her
@lindseales.bsky.social
often horizontal. making when I can. like to create about crip mad fat neuroqueerdo things. Research creating to live in a what-even-is-a-body(?) kind of time.
@daniellepeers.bsky.social
Crip, queer, and genderqueer researcher working on equitable and affirming sport, recreation, art, learning, and research practices.
@susanneluhmann.bsky.social
Queer settler on Treaty 6 lands; professes in Gender Studies on cultural memory, queer and fem pedagogies. Beginning hobbyist (gardening, Ikebana, rug hooking) and yoga for self-care.
@devinsturk.bsky.social
Autistic, trans & nonbinary psychiatrized writer, artist, & Disability Studies grad student. Possibly two cats in a trench coat. https://linktr.ee/devinsturk
@acantle.bsky.social
2025 Rachel Carson WiR at LMU, Munich, debut novel (The Saltbox Olive - Breakwater 2025), Writers at Woody Point co-host, former CBC, MUN PhD candidate - #petrocultures #climatejustice #EnvHum Energy Futures www.theindependent.ca www.angelaantle.com
@tcbursey.bsky.social
My good behavior earned me access to a pen, and I just sort of ran with it. "Ow!" I yelled, after falling on my pen.
@asawinstanley.com
Journalist with @intifada.bsky.social. Bestselling author of “Weaponising Anti-Semitism” from OR Books. Link to buy below. Subscribe to my bestselling Substack newsletter: https://asawinstanley.substack.com/ All my links: asawinstanley.com/links
@bdsmovement.bsky.social
Official account of the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC). We're the Palestinian leadership of the global Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions (BDS) movement.
@caitoz.bsky.social
100% reader-funded. All works free to republish/use/translate. All works co-authored by Tim Foley. https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/
@intifada.bsky.social
Palestine’s weapon of mass instruction. http://electronicintifada.net
@cocktailhag.bsky.social
Anarcho Commie; looking for same. #ACAB, #BLM, free Palestine, abolish the oligarchy, zero out the military budget, nationalize energy and rail to kill fossil fuels. Oh, and did I say fuck cars? Yeah, that too. With food, gardening, and remodeling stuff.
@jvp.bsky.social
Jews organizing toward Palestinian liberation and Judaism beyond Zionism
@maximillianalvarez.bsky.social
- Editor in Chief & Co-Executive Director, @therealnews.com - Host, Working People podcast - Author, The Work of Living - Dad to many cats
@ilhanmn.bsky.social
Mom, Refugee and Congresswoman for #MN05. Progressive Caucus Deputy Chair. Fighting for a more just world.✨ http://HC.com/IlhanOmar
@norabf.bsky.social
Journalist, broadcaster, editor at @intifada.bsky.social http://electronicintifada.net