Hel Spandler
Editor, Asylum the radical mental health magazine. Prof at UCLan. Ambivalent mental health politics. Mad Studies. Madzines. They/them. ❤️
@amychandler.bsky.social
Professor of the Sociology of Health and Illness. Researching suicide, self-harm, bodies/embodiment and 'mental' health. Lived experience & liveability. Scotland/Edinburgh. She/her. #DiscoveringLiveability #suicidecultures
@courtneybuckler.bsky.social
seeker of mischief and snacks | she/they 🏳️⚧️ ☸️ Head of Policy & Campaigns: @nsunnews.bsky.social Exec Director: @makespaceco.bsky.social Trustee: selfinjurysupport.org.uk formerly/unfortunately on the other place as @cbuckler_
@the-polyphony.bsky.social
To stimulate, catalyse, provoke, expand and intensify conversations in the critical medical humanities. Hosted by Durham University's Institute for Medical Humanities. Supported by Wellcome. https://thepolyphony.org/
@wellcomecollection.bsky.social
A free museum and library in London and online. Explore the past, present and future of health with us. wellcomecollection.org
@wellcometrust.bsky.social
Supporting research to transform life, health and wellbeing. We’re taking on three urgent health challenges: mental health, climate change & infectious disease.
@mickmckeown24.bsky.social
Mental health nurse academic & trade union activist. Interested in alliance building with health, disability and survivor movements.
@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.
@johnadlam.bsky.social
groups 🔄 activist research ✍ #welcometheboats ⛵ #antiracistpractice ✊ #traumanotpd ❌ Gaia theory 🌍 psychosocial studies 📚 democratic TCs 🏡 practices of equality 🤝 oral history 🎧 open mic poetry 🎤 Miles Davis 🎺 Bob Dylan 🎸 Brixton 🧡 https://barrelblog.org
@rrowanolive.bsky.social
Give it to the lesbians, they love a banner | Rent-a-mental (autistic type): research/art/writing | Linguistics, disability, psy disciplines | NSUN Trustee
@tehseennoorani.bsky.social
Interested in the co-evolving epistemics, therapeutics & economics of extreme experiences. Co-lead, http://www.psychedelictherapynz.org; Dadx2
@literarti.bsky.social
Director of the Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities and Durham University's Institute for Medical Humanities. Working on voice-hearing, psychosis, narrative, interdisciplinarity / Starting work on postpartum psychosis
@mcpinfoundation.bsky.social
We aim to improve #MentalHealth by championing expertise by experience involvement in all stages of research. RT ≠ endorsement. #MentalHealthResearchMatters Visit our LinkTree to access our website, other socials, news and more. https://linktr.ee/mcpin_fo
@danielpjones.bsky.social
Crip-queer disability scholar + creative practitioner | Tourette Syndrome, Creative Research Methods, Public Space (+ more) | Research Associate @sheffielduni.bsky.social | Leadership Team Member @ndhumanities.bsky.social www.danielpjones.com
@felicitycallard.bsky.social
I am writing — at the intersection of geography/medical humanities — about ‘the university’ since the university worker strike of 2018 (my own views, not my employer’s). Editor, History of the Human Sciences.
@tinacoldham.bsky.social
@survivorresnet.bsky.social
Survivor Researcher Network C.I.C. Mental health knowledge built by service users and survivors.
@healingjusticeldn.bsky.social
Creating Capacity for Transformation. PoC healing & health via community repair, dignity, access & liberation practice 🌱✨
@ritb.bsky.social
recoveryinthebin.org A critical theorist and activist collective of survivors, service users, disabled people.
@aquinnunbroken.bsky.social
Autistic. Therapist - for appointments go to alexisquinn.co.uk Author of ‘Unbroken’ and ‘Autistic & Expecting - a pregnancy guide’. Manager of the Restraint Reduction Network. Ban solitary confinement.
@liminal67.bsky.social
Politics, plants 🌱, patient takes on psychiatry. Plural, ADDled, #bipolar... In a strange relationship with Madness. #DisabledInBusiness Gay & sex-positive. No trans hate! He/they (we) davidmordecai.com ✊🏾🏳️🌈🇯🇲🇨🇦
@thementalelves.bsky.social
I live with mental distress. Interested in alternative approaches outside the system and creating lived experience and peer support spaces. Harmed by critical psychiatry, mad survivor, forced to avoid services to prevent further harm.
@juliamacintosh.bsky.social
life coach, writer and mad activist find out more on my website at: http://juliamacintosh.online read my blog at: https://juliamacintosh.substack.com/
@petertatchellfdn.bsky.social
The Peter Tatchell Foundation is a #HumanRights charity with a strong #LGBT+ focus. We are Speaking Out for Human Rights. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/petertatchellfdn
@ayenomaybe.bsky.social
they/them “In love and madness, words fail – but I keep trying” La Marr Jurelle Bruce part-time PhD student - how do Mad People challenge epistemic injustice?
@nycicarusorg.bsky.social
mad, disabled, neurodivergent, crip. |views expressed here are private and not associated with any employer| Not affiliated with Fireweed collective or Icarus project. the power of lived experience.
@dollysen.bsky.social
British Writer, speaker, artist, filmmaker, working class, queer, interested in disability & the madness that is given to us by the world. She/They
@stopoxevision.bsky.social
Survivor-led campaign to stop Oxevision and other camera surveillance systems being used on psychiatric wards in the UK
@jeppsson.bsky.social
Mad philosopher, doting dog parent, techno-fantasy author. she/they. Blog: https://jeppssonphilosopherauthor.blogspot.com/ Debut novel Kugghjulssjälar coming out in Swedish in March, English version Cogwheel Souls will follow later this year.
@hhnnccnnll.bsky.social
I wrote Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat (Verso, 2024). Marx/Freud/karaoke
@drgipps.bsky.social
Philosopher. Psychotherapist. Clinical Psychologist. On Madness (Bloomsbury 2022). Oxford Handbooks of Philosophy and Psychiatry / Psychoanalysis (OUP 2013 / 2019)
@markoneinfour.bsky.social
Mental health/tech stuff. Former writer in residence @centreforMH. Ask me to write MH things. Director Social Spider CIC. DMs open. Podcast @BBCOuch (he/they)
@asylummagazine.bsky.social
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
@shrinkatlarge.bsky.social
Consultant clinical psychologist/ activist/ neuroqueer bluestocking. Former Lived Experience Practitioner. Future failed poet. Will question ideology for cake. 💜🎭🦓🥄🏳️🌈 #MadSky #TraumaNotPD #Disability #Neurodivergent #Mad https://t.co/83d2Ztwpp2
@rickburgess.bsky.social
He/They Dissident. Pondering an anti-social model of disability?!?! If I ever get the time and energy I like to compose odd music. Otherwise - Ask me about my initialisms: GMCDP, MDPAC, RITB, CSMH, DBW, DPHRN.
@chloeapter.bsky.social
Autistic ADHDer, mental/physical illness, iatrogenic harm, trauma, co-production, SEND, uoppald.bsky.social Student, Trustee for The ND Harbour. Views own, personal account.
@kpoursanidou.bsky.social
Survivor Researcher in Mental Health with a PhD Member of Asylum Magazine editorial group
@safelyheldspaces.org
A British mental health non-profit providing trauma-informed storytelling training to journalists and newsrooms and broadcast and production skills to mental health professionals and those with lived experience.
@nsunnews.bsky.social
Network of user-led groups and people with lived experience of mental ill-health, distress and trauma. Shifting power and resource in mental health. https://linktr.ee/NationalSurvivorUserNetwork
@mad-in-america.bsky.social
Rethinking Psychiatry Advocacy, Blogs, News, Podcasts and Resources. https://www.madinamerica.com
@awaisaftab.bsky.social
Psychiatrist with philosophical interests | Conversations in Critical Psychiatry (Oxford University Press, 2024) | Psychiatry at the Margins www.psychiatrymargins.com
@drrobertchapman.bsky.social
Socially neurodivergent, fiscally communist philosopher. They/them.
@bsky.app
official Bluesky account (check username👆) Bugs, feature requests, feedback: support@bsky.app