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How To Hold a Successful Mad Pride Event

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Tips, suggestions, and brainstorms to create and participate in successful Mad Pride events, small and large!

Photo of UK Bed Push Showing Mad Pride Photo of UK Bed Push Showing Mad Pride
Mad Pride Brain Balloon Image You May Use For Posters Mad Pride Brain Balloon Image You May Use For Posters
Image of a hypodermic needle to show how to make a big one for a prop Image of a hypodermic needle to show how to make a big one for a prop
Page Bed Push Tips
Rufus in England has helped organize several successful "Bed Pushes," where a group in costume pushes a bed (often with a manequin tied down in four-point restraint) through the streets, escaping from the psychiatric system. The Bed Pushes in UK have won national publicity on the BBC. Now Bed Pushes are planned in Germany, Canada and the USA.
News Item "Screen the World for Normality"
MindFreedom invites you to celebrate your Mad Pride! MindFreedom is "Screening the World for Normality "! Here's how you can participate! Get your rubber chicken ready!
Page How to build a prop "Big Giant Pill"
MindFreedom Lane County held a skit called "The Normathon" involving worship of an enormous five-foot giant pill capsule. Here are simple instructions about how you may make your own "Big Giant Pill."
Page How to make a big giant hypodermic needle "prop" for a skit
Here's how to make an enormous hypodermic "prop" needle to use in your skits and plays.
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Lauren Tenney, psychiatric survivor activist from New York State

First involuntarily institutionalized, at 15, Lauren Tenney is a survivor of psychiatry. She has been involved with the user and survivor movement since 1992. Her goal is to help stop forced psychiatric procedures, detainment, and confinement, human rights violations, psychiatric abuse and torture. Of particular concern are the elimination of forced electroconvulsive treatment (ECT) on people of all ages, but particularly children and senior citizens, forced drugging, restraints, seclusion, behavioral interventions, and coercion of any kind. Lauren, a Mad-Activist/ Artist/ Author/ Academic/ Adjunct Professor is coordinating The Opal Project, an outcome of participatory action research she coordinated for field research in the PhD program in Environmental Psychology at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Her dissertation topic is: "The Institutionalized "Community." She became involved with WE THE PEOPLE when the Law Project for Psychiatric Rights and MindFreedom International needed someone on the ground in Brooklyn, New York to coordinate a response where Esmin Green was murdered-by-neglect. She now lives in Albany, NY with her service dog-in-training and cat. For more info: www.TheOpalProject.org and www.etrash.tv

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