Mad Pride

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Pride Parade Cologne, 2017
Bed push with depicted fixation and forced treatment during the Mad Pride parade in Cologne

Mad Pride (from English Mad ' crazy ' and Pride ' pride ', 'self-esteem') is a movement of psychiatric experienced that was founded in 1993 in Toronto . The term is based on the gay pride of the lesbian and gay movement , which has been describing the self-confident and therefore proud handling of one's own sexual identity since the 1970s . Accordingly, Mad Pride is about a positive, proud handling of psychological , but now also other deviations from the social norm . As with Gay Pride , Mad Pride events usually include a colorful parade through the respective city of the event.

history

The Mad Pride goes to the self-help - and self-advocacy movement psychiatric (ex-) patients beginning in the 1970s back. In the English-speaking world, the self-designation “Psychiatric Survivor” or “consumer / survivor / ex-patient” established itself for the proverbial and actual survival of psychiatric treatments. Accordingly, the first Mad Pride took place on September 18, 1993 in Toronto, Canada under the title “Psychiatric Survivor Pride Day” (Day of Pride for Psychiatric Survivors). It was initially to be called Crazy Day and was conceived as a response to prejudices in the population against people with abnormal thinking, feeling and behavior in the city. The organizers wanted to combat stigmatization and improve the visibility and acceptance of people with a psychiatric history. Mental health care professionals should celebrate themselves as active members of Canadian society and share their history and culture from personal experience. The movement also sought to network with other groups in its community, but also with other marginalized groups , including people with disabilities , people of color or First Nations ,

After 1993 the event in Toronto took place annually until today, with one exception in 1996. During the parade, a sick bed is traditionally carried along, which, like the route in Toronto, symbolizes the path taken by psychiatric experts from the institution to the community. There are also educational, art, and music events during Mad Pride week .

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Mad Pride in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, 2009
Motto of the fourth handicapped and crazy celebrations pride parade 2017 in Berlin
Whole instead of partaking : Motto of the fourth handicapped and crazy celebrating pride parade 2017 in Berlin as a banner above Oranienstrasse

Since its inception, Mad Pride events and parades have taken place in many locations around the world. In the USA and Africa , organizers often choose July 14th , the anniversary of the Bastille's storming, for the parade. Many events there are linked through MindFreedom International , which is based in Eugene, Oregon and has sister organizations in Great Britain , Ireland , Ghana , New Zealand and Australia .

The first continental European Mad Pride parade started in 2007 in Brussels . Germany's first Mad Pride Parade took place in Berlin on July 13, 2013 as Disability & Mad Pride Parade 2013 with the motto celebrating disabled and crazy . Among the 850 to 1000 participants there were not only people with psychiatric experience but also people with various disabilities. The following year on July 12, 2014, 2000 people marched through the streets of Berlin at the parade and celebrated again and again disabled and crazy . Another event in Germany was the first Mad Pride Cologne on May 25, 2015 , embedded in the Summer Blood Festival. Shortly afterwards, on July 11, 2015, the third Berlin parade took place under the motto Party³ Pathologisierung . Two years later, on July 15, 2017, people came together again in Berlin under the slogan whole-part instead of part-part to celebrate crazy and disabled. In Switzerland, the first Mad Pride took place in Geneva on October 10, 2019, organized by the Coraasp association (Coordination romande des associations d'action pour la santé psychique). As a result, a Mad Pride Switzerland sponsoring association was founded as the basis for an annual Mad Pride in Switzerland. In 2020 it was postponed to March 27, 2021 in Bern due to the COVID-19 measures.

Web links

Commons : Mad Pride  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Linda Joy Morrison: TALKING BACK TO PSYCHIATRY: RESISTANT IDENTITIES IN THE PSYCHIATRIC CONSUMER / SURVIVOR / EX-PATIENT MOVEMENT . Ed .: Dissertation University of Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh 2003 ( pitt.edu [PDF]).
  3. ^ A b Geoffrey Reaume: A History of Psychiatric Survivor Pride Day during the 1990s . Ed .: The Consumer / Survivor Information Resource Center Bulletin, No. 374. 2008 ( csinfo.ca [PDF]).
  4. ↑ Madness on Parade - Mad Bed Push. In: Toronto Mad Pride. March 3, 2016, Retrieved May 16, 2016 (American English).
  5. ↑ a b Augustin - Klaus Federmair: The dignity of insanity. In: www.augustin.or.at. Retrieved May 9, 2016 .
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  7. ↑ Disabled and crazy celebrating: Call 2013. In: Pride Parade Berlin. Disabled and crazy celebrations pride parade, July 12, 2013, accessed September 13, 2017 .
  8. ↑ "Abolish normalcy!"; Disabled and crazy partying in: Der Tagesspiegel from Sunday, July 14, 2013, page 11
  9. ↑ Hilke Rusch: Demo for the rights of the disabled. Party instead of pathologizing. In: taz.de. taz, July 10, 2015, accessed July 10, 2015 .
  10. ↑ cf. ibid.
  11. ↑ Disabled and crazy celebrating: Call 2014. In: Pride Parade Berlin. Disabled and crazy celebrations pride parade, July 12, 2014, accessed September 13, 2017 .
  12. ↑ The Parade of the Lepers; MAD PRIDE The Inclusion and Culture Association invites people to move on Whit Monday for the first time; in: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger from May 26, 2015
  13. ↑ Disabled and crazy celebrating: Call 2015. In: Pride Parade Berlin. Disabled and crazy celebrations pride parade Berlin, July 16, 2015, accessed on September 13, 2017 .
  14. ↑ Christiane Link: Disabled and proud of it. In: Zeit Online. July 12, 2015, accessed July 12, 2015 .
  15. ↑ Disabled and crazy celebrating: Call 2017. In: Pride Parade Berlin. Disabled and crazy celebrations pride parade Berlin, July 15, 2017, accessed on September 13, 2017 .
  16. ^ Franz Schmahl: Glitzerkrücke for Lebenshilfe. In: kobinet news. July 17, 2017. Retrieved July 17, 2017 .
  17. ↑ Coraasp
  18. ↑ Coraasp: Mad Pride - Défilons pour la diversité. Retrieved July 9, 2020 (French).
  19. ↑ Sponsoring Association