Mad Collective

16/07/2026

🔥♿ Disability Pride Month × Mad Pride at Mad Collective

Madness is not something to hide. Mad Pride is about identity, community, creativity, resistance and our right to understand our experiences on our own terms.

Until 31 July, receive 20% off orders over $150 using the code:

MADPRIDE20

Wear the words that speak to you:

🔥 Madness Is My Superpower
✊ Mad Rights Are Human Rights
🌍 Mad Pride: United as One
📣 Oppression Is Not an Illness
🏳️ Mad ’N’ Proud
💜 Proudly a Voice Hearer
😈 Mad as Hell
🧠 Manic Depressive
🔥 Burn the DSM VI
🗑️ ICD Trash
🏥 Burn Psych Down
⚡ Break the Stigma
🏳️ Mad Pride Flag

Available across T-shirts, hoodies, sweaters and stickers.

Whether you identify as Mad, disabled, neurodivergent, a voice hearer, survivor, consumer or ex-patient—or are still finding the language that fits—there is space for you in this movement.

Wear your madness. Celebrate your difference. Make resistance visible.

Use MADPRIDE20 at checkout for 20% off orders over $150.

Offer ends 11:59 pm AEST on 31 July 2026.

Shop the collection: www.madcollective.com.au/shop

09/06/2026

💜 Wear the Movement. Support the Movement. 💜

One of the questions I am often asked is how people can support the activism, advocacy, research, and movement-building work I am involved in across Australia and internationally.

One way is through the Mad Collective merchandise store.

Mad Collective is a for-purpose social enterprise that supports and resources the Mad Pride movement through visibility, identity, community, and activism. It is grounded in values of human rights, disability justice, inclusion, empowerment, and resistance to stigma and psychiatric oppression.

Every purchase helps support work that spans:

✊ Human rights and social justice advocacy
🌏 International Mad movement organising and solidarity
♿ Disability justice and psychosocial disability rights
🏳️‍🌈 Q***r, Mad, and neurodivergent liberation
📢 Challenging sanism, discrimination, and stigma
🏛️ Engagement with the WHO, United Nations, and global policy spaces
🤝 Community-led alternatives, peer support, and collective action

I wanted to create merchandise that reflects our movements, our histories, and our pride. Whether it's "Mad 'N' Proud", "Break the Stigma", or "Oppression Is Not an Illness", these designs are intended to spark conversations and make visible a community that has too often been silenced.

Madness is part of human diversity. We deserve to be visible, celebrated, and connected.

If you'd like to support the work, check out the collection below:

🛍️ https://www.madcollective.com.au/

Thank you to everyone who has already purchased merchandise, shared the store, or worn Mad Collective gear out in the world. Seeing these designs at conferences, community events, and on the streets reminds me that our movement is growing.

Discover Mad Collective's empowering merchandise supporting the Mad Pride movement and mental health advocacy. Shop our unique collection celebrating authenticity and resilience.

05/06/2026

Last montH, I spoke at the Care Not Custody campaign event, co-organised by the Global Mental Health Action Network (GMHAN) and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), on the urgent need for deinstitutionalisation, at the World Health Assembly 🇨🇭

I spoke about a difficult truth: across the world, people experiencing madness, distress, and psychosocial disability continue to face coercion, detention, seclusion, restraint, forced treatment, and other practices that would be unacceptable in most areas of healthcare.

These are not historical issues. They are contemporary human rights issues.

My mother experienced trauma, abuse, poverty, and abandonment. Labelled with Borderline Personality Disorder, she repeatedly entered systems that often responded to her suffering through diagnosis rather than understanding. One week after being discharged from hospital, she died by su***de.

The last time I saw my mother was in a psychiatric hospital.

Years later, I found myself cycling through similar systems. Too often, I encountered environments focused on containment rather than healing.

These experiences taught me that one of the greatest barriers to justice is sanism — the belief that people experiencing madness are less credible, less capable, and less deserving of autonomy and dignity.

Across the world, Mad movements, psychiatric survivor movements, disability justice movements, and peer-led initiatives have long argued that there is another way.

The answer is not more institutions or more coercion. The answer is housing, peer support, mutual aid, trauma-informed approaches, culturally grounded healing, and rights-based community support.

Deinstitutionalisation is not about abandoning people.

It is about ending abandonment disguised as care.

If you have lived or living experience of institutionalisation, involuntary treatment, seclusion, restraint, or other restrictive practices, I encourage you to join the Care Not Custody Experts by Experience group and help shape this international work.

Nothing about us without us.

Learn more: https://unitedgmh.org/care-not-custody/

14/04/2026

🎥 New Mad Movement and Peer Work Digital Downloads Now Available

Built by lived expertise. 💓🥵🔥

Designed for real-world impact.
At The Australian Centre for Lived Experience 'TACFLE' , we’re creating practical digital resources to support:

✨ Lived experience leaders
✨ Peer workers
✨ Researchers & students
✨ Organisations wanting meaningful change

These downloads are grounded in Mad Studies, lived experience knowledge, and human rights.

Because lived experience isn’t just personal —
it’s powerful knowledge.

🎬 Watch the Video & Explore the Store
🔗 https://www.tacfle.com/store

Download. Learn. Lead. Change systems.

18/03/2026

🔥Mad_Collectives empowered by The Australian Centre for Lived Experience 'TACFLE' NEW DROP IS LIVE 🔥

This isn’t just fashion.

This is resistance. This is identity. This is Mad Pride.

From “Mad Lives, Mad Rights” to “Burn DSM VI”,

from “Madness is My Superpower” to “Oppression is Not an Illness” —

This collection is about reclaiming language, power, and narrative.

For too long, madness has been:
❌ pathologised
❌ silenced
❌ medicalised

We’re flipping that.

💥 This drop is for:
Mad people
neurodivergent folks
psychiatric survivors
allies in the struggle
anyone done with stigma and systems that don’t serve us

🌍 Every piece you wear says:

We exist. We resist. We redefine.

And every purchase supports:
👉 lived experience leadership
👉 Mad movement advocacy
👉 global systems change
⚡️ This is culture.
⚡️ This is politics.
⚡️ This is a movement you can wear.

🛒 SHOP NOW → support the movement
www.madcollective.com.au