I’m working on a major review of this site, after leaving it idle for some years.
It will probably take me a few months to get the site to where I want it.
Feel free to explore the blog posts and resources in the meantime, but please bear in mind that there’s some things I say here that I no longer feel comfortable with. Sometimes it’s just about nuance, and in other cases I’ve completely changed my mind. It’s bloody inconvenient to change my mind, but it’s also to be expected when life is painful and we try to keep learning.
In the years since writing most of this site I’ve experienced more trauma, madness, and increasingly awful experiences of work inside the system. This has had a huge impact on me.
My experiences, reading, learning and reflections have led me to evolve my thinking about the nature of madness, the psychiatric system, and ideas like ‘recovery’, ‘reform’ and lots more.
These days I hold a much more political position grounded in abolition, mad liberation, mad art and grassroots psych survivor organising. I don’t talk about recovery anymore, and I choose to no longer work with the psych system.
It’s felt hard to know what to do with this site. I know some folks still value it, but it doesn’t sit well with me. I hope to add lots of new content, and add annotations in places where my thinking has shifted.
You’re welcome to check out my posts on Instagram and Twitter which hold more of my thinking from recent years. You might also like my current project, Slice/Silence, which has its own website.
