#dignity

A workshop led by:

Micha Frazer-Carroll

31/10/2023

19:00 – 21:00

HJL Dream Space
Resource for London
352 Holloway Road
London
N7 6PA

 

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Description

This workshop led by Micha Frazer-Carroll will interrogate mental health as a political issue, and why we often discuss it as a personal one. How is the current mental health crisis connected to capitalism, racism and other social issues? In a different world, how might we transform the ways that we think about mental health, diagnosis and treatment?

Exploring the history of asylums and psychiatry; the relationship between disability justice, queer liberation and mental health; art and creativity; prisons and abolition; and alternative models of care; this workshop will help us carve out radical and hopeful antidotes to pathologisation, gatekeeping and the policing of imagination.

If you require additional access measures to enable your participation, including BSL interpretation please email info@healingjusticeldn.org. Inline with our commitment to disability justice, we will try to accommodate as much as possible.

Biography

Micha Frazer-Carroll is Senior Media and Communications Manager at Healing Justice Ldn. She has a background in campaigning, journalism and communications. At university she founded Blueprint, a mental health magazine, and went on to be elected Welfare and Rights Officer at Cambridge University Students’ Union. Since then, she has acted as an editor for platforms including HuffPost, gal-dem, the Guardian and the Runnymede Trust; as a columnist for the Independent; and as a writer for many other publications. In 2023, Micha wrote Mad World, a book on the topic of mental health from a radical political perspective. She has experience of conducting communications work for charities, abolitionist groups and grassroots campaigns, and is a trustee of the National Survivor User Network (NSUN).