Abolitionist Advocacy – Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities from a Survivor of Psychiatry Perspective

This page will be a space for materials useful for the abolition of forced psychiatry and other disability-based carceral systems.

Some questions to ask ourselves:

What are the policies and laws that prevent us from changing practices so that people’s human rights are respected?
Which of these are the linchpins – the ones that, if we pull them out, the whole structure falls?
Where are the potential openings for us to change these laws and policies? What are the means available?

Remember: laws and policies are created by human beings and can be changed.

What else is preventing change from happening?
Is it public opinion? How can we mobilize allies and journalists?
Are there questions about our analysis or proposals that we can’t answer? How do we deal with uncertainty?

Remember: we come to this as survivors of an atrocity, with the aim that it should be stopped once and for all.

What supports us in that vision?
What do we need from the society around us, for ourselves and for the vision to be put into practice?

Resources:

and other resources on this site as needed to be fully informed on CRPD.

Ask questions if you need to! Find Tina Minkowitz on social media, on Academia site, or through Mad in America blog and get in touch.