Mad Pride is an arts, culture, and heritage festival created by psychiatric survivors, consumers, mad people, folks the world has labelled "mentally ill", and those in solidarity with us.

Mad Pride is about:
• remembering and participating in mad history
• challenging discrimination
• advocating for rights
• affirming mad identities
• developing and empowering mad communities
• having fun!

Our lives and contributions are valuable and need celebration!

All events are free. Festivities include educational talks/panels, theatre, music, art, poetry, comedy, films, craft/vendor sales, information booths, mad hatter tea parties and more.

MSS Presents: "Mad Hatters in the Hammer - Coming to Terms"

The first ever MSS peer support meeting in Hamilton

Are you crazy? Labelled/DSMed with (‘serious', ‘persistent', ‘severe') ‘mental illness'? Have you been psychiatrized, therapized, case managed, social worked? (How) Do you manage ‘mental health issues' or ‘concerns' or 'challenges' or ‘problems'? How do you self-identify? Some people use words like psychiatric survivor, consumer, user, ex-patient as well as mad, psychiatrically/emotionally/socially disabled and mentally ill. Which terms do you use? Which ones are used against you?

MSS Presents: "New Year/Fear/Cheer and Community Revolutions"

What? Our January 2012 downtown peer support meeting
Where? Email Elizabeth at outreach@madstudentsociety.com for details.

How crazy was 2011? (How) Did you make it through the holidays? Come talk about the New Year and what you're worried about and looking forward to in 2012. Do you make resolutions? Dissolutions? Evolutions? Revolutions? What are your hopes for the mad community and MSS in the year ahead? Any questions you want answered? Issues you want addressed? Topics you want discussed? Events you want organized (you're so helping!)? Of course there will be plenty of time to talk about whatever else is on our minds... We welcome new members, frequent faces, and folks we haven't seen in awhile!

Mad Students Society (MSS), created in 2005, is a community of students who are attending or planning to attend institutions of post-secondary or adult education and have past and/or present experiences with psychiatric and/or mental health systems.