Mad Campaigns Lab is a space for NSUN members (individuals with lived experience of mental ill-health, distress, and/or trauma, as well as grassroots, user-led mental health groups). If you are not already a member, sign up for free here.
Part 1: 10th June, 4.00-5.30pm. Panel & discussion
How are madness, the mental health crisis, and climate justice interlinked? What does it mean to say that climate justice is mental health care? Join us for an NSUN-hosted Q&A to learn more.
This session will include a presentation and discussion between NSUN and our speakers, two climate justice organisers working at the intersection of mental health (Tori and Hannah). This first half will be recorded but this will not include participants’ names or faces. After the break we will take questions from the audience, which will not be recorded.
This session includes minimal participant interaction (bar asking questions, if you’d like), and you are welcome to join and simply listen in!
About our speakers
Tori Tsui is an environmental campaigner, author and advisor from Hong Kong. She is a senior advisor for the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty, campaigner for the Stop Rosebank coalition and works across a variety of initiatives within the music industry including Brian Eno’s Earth Percent, In Place of War’s Earth Sonic and Climate Live. Her debut book It’s Not Just You won Waterstones’ books of the year awards and was shortlisted for the Wainwright prize. Click here to learn more about Tori’s work.
Hannah Hunt is an activist and campaigner with experience organising in the UK climate movement, including with Just Stop Oil, as well as in the animal rights movement. Shaped by her own experiences of mental illness and the psychiatric system, Hannah is interested in the intersection between climate justice and our experiences of mental illness – particularly how systemic crises shape madness and what it means to build connected movements for collective liberation.
Part 2: 17th June, 4.00-5.30pm. Action session.
What does solidarity look like between the Mad, Disabled, and climate justice movements? How do we move beyond campaigning in silos? How do we incorporate climate justice into our work around Mad/Disability justice?
Join the NSUN team for an action session, identifying ongoing campaigns and building our own goals around climate justice and mental health activism.
This session will be facilitated by the NSUN team. Participants will be asked to contribute, but you are welcome to join however you see fit including keeping your camera off, listening along, or participating only via the chat.