Inside Our Minds

For our Summer Mental Health Cafe, we are moving to a biweekly (every other week) schedule, to let our amazing facilitators rest after going hard the past year+. Join us every other Tuesday via Zoom, same time of 5:00 - 7:00pm. 🥳

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This coming Saturday the 15th from 2:00-3:30pm - “Radical Mental Health and Pathology: Many Paths, Many Voices, Holding Our Truths" with Sara Tang!

Pathology smathology! It’s time to rethink and restructure our relationship to the medical aspects of mental health through MAD May’s Pathology Week, aka even more radical and educational content, culminating in “Radical Mental Health and Pathology: Many Paths, Many Voices, Holding Our Truths.”

Join artist-educator Sara Tang(she/they) of the as together we push back on the medical industrial complex’s definition of mental health and mental illness and discover some of the oppressive roots of pathology. We will offer alternatives to pathologizing mental health experiences and engage with some art-making and poetry-writing prompts to practice a new ritual of pathology alchemy.

Expect optional interactive opportunities for art-making and discussion, but no pressure to participate. There may be content about mental health issues and experiences sensitive for some, content warnings will be provided.

*register at folklab.net/madmay

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Pathology smathology!

It’s time to rethink and restructure our relationship to the medical aspects of mental health through MAD May’s Pathology Week, aka even more radical and educational content, culminating in “Radical Mental Health and Pathology: Many Paths, Many Voices, Holding Our Truths.”

Join artist-educator Sara Tang(she/they) of the as together we push back on the medical industrial complex’s definition of mental health and mental illness and discover some of the oppressive roots of pathology. We will offer alternatives to pathologizing mental health experiences and engage with some art-making and poetry-writing prompts to practice a new ritual of pathology alchemy.

Expect optional interactive opportunities for art-making and discussion, but no pressure to participate. There may be content about mental health issues and experiences sensitive for some, content warnings will be provided.

*register at folklab.net/madmay

[Image description: Text reads: “Radical Mental Health and Pathology: Many Paths, Many Voices, Holding Our Truths. Excavating, decolonizing, and transfiguring our understanding of pathologies through discussion, art, and poetry. Workshop with Sara Tang of the . May 15th at 2PM EST. Free! Register at folklab.net/madmay”]

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🤝: @ notwhitecollective

Super excited to share more information about this collab soon!

As we move from April showers to May flowers, folkLAB is blooming a new project… We are excited to announce MAD May, a full month of free programming and digital content centering radical mental health. All through the month of May folkLAB is partnering with Inside Our Minds to meld mental health, individual and community care, and creativity through a radical lens.

We are creating and curating interactive artmaking and education opportunities that will explore a different mental health theme each week.

Join us every Saturday in May for free workshops led by exciting special guests from the Pittsburgh community.

We’re just MAD for radical mental health! Check out our website https://www.folklab.net/madmay and stay tuned here for more information and upcoming announcements.

, workshop registration opens Monday, April 19th.

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