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Hiring Organizational Development Coordinator in NYC
The Icarus Project [TIP] is looking for someone in New York City with a strong background in social justice as well as organizational administration and development who can help us rebuild our organizational structure. read more (Source: The Icarus Project - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness)
Source: The Icarus Project - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness - September 20, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Icarus Project Tags: About Us Source Type: blogs

Bringing on new Icarus Project Collaborators, Staff, and Expanding our Community
Hey, The Icarus Project is planning to hire an organization development/operations manager type person (in NYC) for an initial 6 month commitment to help us get our shit together and rebuild our infrastructure. What do you all think? As we move into the next ten years, we are looking to strengthen our collective vision by keeping in better touch with the folks who use our resources and figuring out how to get more people involved in ways that work for them. We want to pull together an advisory board and work with people and organizations that are doing work around issues relating to social justice, racial justi...
Source: The Icarus Project - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness - September 19, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Icarus Project Tags: Journal Source Type: blogs

Zine Review: Forever Falling Sideways
Forever Falling Sideways is an artistic and carefully put together 72 page, half-size zine on mental health. This zine is packed full of personal stories, amazing artwork, poetry, hints and tips on self-care, advice on getting and giving consent, interviews, read more (Source: The Icarus Project - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness)
Source: The Icarus Project - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness - September 10, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Icarus Project Tags: Articles Source Type: blogs

On Access Intimacy and Mental Health
For many years I, and so many others I know, have resisted identifying as disabled for very good reasons. If you believe your distress is largely a result of family trauma and/or capitalism, racism, and other forms of structural violence, why would you identify as disabled? If you frame your distress as a form of spiritual or existential crisis, why would you use the word disabled? If you believe we all have the capacity for full recovery, or nothing was ever wrong in the first place, why would you identify as disabled? For me, the reason is to be part of an amazing and supportive community with revolutionary politi...
Source: The Icarus Project - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness - August 26, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Icarus Project Tags: Articles Source Type: blogs

New Alternative DSM Zine out from Icarus member unraveled
I am proud to announce the long awaited release of the zine “Depictions of Self-Identified Madness: A Visionary Alternative to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders”. The zine is a collection of over thirteen self portraits created by individuals who self identify as having madness, mental health issues, or as being a psychiatric survivors. Accompanying their self portraits are their responses to questions about their experiences. read more (Source: The Icarus Project - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness)
Source: The Icarus Project - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness - July 21, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: unraveled Tags: Publications Source Type: blogs

(A small group of) friends make the best medicine
For the past few months, myself and a few NYC Icaristas have been quietly conducting an experiment around alternatives for running peer-support groups according to the model suggested by Friends Make the Best Medicine. Four of us have been meeting regularly, as a part of a closed group of committed participants, according to a model that I am proposing to call "Icarus Cells". read more (Source: The Icarus Project - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness)
Source: The Icarus Project - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness - July 20, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: sleepingbuffalo Tags: alternative treatments cells community groups peer-support Source Type: blogs

Jacks & Sascha Tour 2013
Check out all the places where Jacks and Sascha will be offering readings and workshops in conjunction with the release of our new books, and the revised 10th printing of Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness. read more (Source: The Icarus Project - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness)
Source: The Icarus Project - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness - May 15, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Icarus Project Tags: icarus organizational Source Type: blogs

Call us Crazy: article from The Dominion
Forum member fluidity published this article in The Dominion: News from the Grassroots. Please go there are grab the PDFs if you want print-ready vewing. -- People are Mad. And they’re doing something about it. Mental health awareness is gradually gaining ground, and so are radical alternatives to mainstream approaches. Community-based initiatives by and for the so-called crazies amongst us tend to be kept under the radar in Canada, challenging discrimination, providing peer support and advocating for a diversity of perspectives on mental health, its treatment and justice. Grassroots movements around ...
Source: The Icarus Project - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness - May 12, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Icarus Project Tags: Articles Source Type: blogs

German version of "Hurting Yourself" workbook
Thanks so much to German comrades for translating maamyyrä's "Hurting Yourself" workbook to German. Original zine here: http://theicarusproject.net/downloads/hurting-yourself German version: http://theicarusproject.net/downloads/sichselbstverletzen read more (Source: The Icarus Project - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness)
Source: The Icarus Project - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness - April 5, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: silverelf Tags: Publications Source Type: blogs

Jacks & Sascha Tour 2013
Check out all the places where Jacks and Sascha will be offering readings and workshops in conjunction with the release of our new books, and the revised 10th printing of Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness. read more (Source: The Icarus Project - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness)
Source: The Icarus Project - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness - March 15, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Icarus Project Tags: icarus organizational Source Type: blogs

The New Epilogue to Our Classic Reader - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness
You can order the new book here So much has changed in the nine years since we originally published this book that we both wonder sometimes if our lives are a movie or a dream. The Icarus Project is no longer fueled by the obsessive energy of two people working at a frenzied pace and holding it all together with lithium and duct tape. These days the project is supported by a network of madfolks and allies all over the world. Last Fall we celebrated our tenth anniversary with art shows, performance nights, and skillshares on both coasts. Our publications have been translated into Spanish, French, German, Italian, He...
Source: The Icarus Project - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness - March 15, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Icarus Project Source Type: blogs