Name: Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health
Start: 2025-07-04T12:00:00-0500
End: 2025-07-04T13:30:00-0500

Friday July 4, 2025 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT

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Mental health is a political issue, but 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? This session will situate mental health as an urgent political concern that demands deeper understanding from the left.

Speakers

Micha Frazer-Carroll

Micha Frazer-Carroll is the author of Mad World and a columnist at the Independent. She has previously edited for gal-dem, the Guardian and Blueprint, a mental health magazine that she founded. Micha has also written for Vogue, HuffPost, Huck and Dazed. She was nominated for the Comment... Read More →

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