9:58am July 18, 2014

➸ Wanting To Be Crazy - Irit Shimrat and Persimmon Blackbridge Yack - Lunatics Liberation Front, 1998

A really interesting discussion of the psychiatric consumer movement, the survivor movement, the mad movement, and what it means to be crazy, and to experience insanity, in a society where it’s thoroughly medicalized and stigmatized.  And they raise a question really interesting to me:  What would it be like to go crazy in a society that was actually prepared to deal with it in a reasonable way.  

The usual LLF-related content warnings apply, including that if you’re uncomfortable with crazy people calling themselves crazy, you probably  should read with caution or not read at all.

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