#wmhist

“BATSHIT takes an axe to the lies we are sold about female madness.”
Coming to Vancouver’s beloved Cultch 11-15 February! Tickets and info: buff.ly/VsdULLQ
#Madhistory #Institution #Historymatters #WmnsHist #wmhist #HistPsych #MadStudies #WomeninPsych #Mentalhealth #Stigma
#HumanRights

By the 15thC, the church taught women that it wasn’t good enough for them to let the men in their families flog them. They should also kiss the rods their men used for the flogging! Ghosts of #GenderHistory still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #doctrine #misogyny #WmHist

The most common reason for a girl going into #SexWork was the death of a parent, especially the father. Many were younger than the age of menarche at the time—15. (The age of consent was 10.) Ghosts of #WMHist still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #DecrimNow

No cherries” “I wish to read”
Incarcerated in a German asylum in 1895, Agnes Richter used her institutional uniform jacket as a “diary,” painstakingly sewing her story into every inch of the fabric.
#Madhistory #Survivorculture #Institution #wmhist #HistPsych #MadStudies #Dishist #Museum #Madart

The Museum of Mental Health gives up to $5,000 for archival research projects on Canadian mental health and mad history. Look in October: museumofmentalhealth.ca
#Madhistory #CanadianHistory #Historymatters #Medhum #CdnHist #MedHist #HistMed #WmnsHist #wmhist #HistPsych #MadStudies #Dishist #Funding

“BATSHIT takes an axe to the lies we are sold about female madness.”
Leah Shelton
Powerful, intimate piece of feminist theatre buff.ly/42sZD86
#Madhistory #Historymatters #wmhist #HistPsych #MadStudies #WomeninPsych #Mentalhealth #Voice #HumanRights #HealthJustice #Feminism #Madart #Feminist