An international movement comes together for a meeting in Toronto, and raises establishment hackles
On May 7 and 8, 2010 over two hundred people gathered in Toronto for a conference focused on organizing resistance against psychiatry. PsychOUT’s stated purpose was to “provide a forum for psychiatric survivors, mad people, activists, scholars, students, radical professionals, and artists from around the world to come together and share experiences of organizing against psychiatry.”
People belonging to marginalized groups who are at greater risk of psychiatrization, such as women, radicalized people, queers, trans people, people with disabilities and homeless people and others living in poverty, were active participants.
People First Radio covered this conference in its entirety and will bring to the air, over the next few months, a variety of voices from the anti-psychiatry and mad pride movements. Our first segment—this week—provides an overview of the conference, including comments from a range of participants and presenters.
