Welcome to the The Icarus Project journals. On this page you can find blogs by our members, co-coordinators, and local groups.

If you want to see all recent journal/blog entries by everyone, click here. Use the search box at right to search for a specific username or topic.

 

Icarus Member Journals

 

Click here on the main site and here on the forums to check out blogs by members of The Icarus Project's online community. Every registered Icarus member can create their own blog with the "my blog" link on the right hand navigation menu and starting to type! (Just make sure you're logged in first.) To find a member's blog, use the search box on the right.

 

 

Icarus Intergalactic Co-Coordinator Collective Journal

 

This blog, below, is the place to find organizational writing from Icarus Project collective as a whole. We'll keep you updated about what's happening with the project on a national level. Scroll down on this page to take a look at our blog entries, and feel free to post comments and feedback!

 

Madness and Motherhood Zine: Call for Entries

Submitted by Icarus Project on Sun, 04/10/2011 - 12:48am

Icarus member FaithRR is looking for submissions for a zine about madness and motherhood. See her thread here.

Greek Translation -- Harm Reduction Guide to Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs

Submitted by Icarus Project on Fri, 07/15/2011 - 5:25pm
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The Harm Reduction Guide to Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs, published by The Icarus Project and Freedom Center, is now available in Greek - thanks to the dedicated volunteer translation work of Marianna Kefallinou and Katerina Tsantila and the design work of Vassilis Betsis. You can download the Greek version here.

Οδηγός Μείωσης της Βλάβης για τη Διακοπή των Ψυχιατρικών Φαρμάκων

Wax and Feathers Zine

Submitted by Icarus Project on Sun, 09/04/2011 - 5:18pm
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This Wax and Feathers zine was a collaborative work by a group of super talented folks who post on the Icarus Project forums.

They write in the intro:

waxandfeatherscover"In expressing our feelings, insights, and ideas about madness and the world around us we hope to inform and inspire others. The stories told by the psychiatric establishment, pharmaceutical industry, and the mainstream media all to often overshadow our own. By sharing our stories with others we can reclaim the right to define ourselves and our experiences. We choose to honor our uniqueness and complexity by letting our voices be heard."

Download it! Print it out! Share it with your peeps! Mad Love!

https://site.icarusprojectarchive.org/files/waxandfeathers.pdf

UK Screenings of Crooked Beauty

Submitted by Icarus Project on Mon, 09/19/2011 - 5:18pm
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Crooked Beauty is a poetic documentary that chronicles The Icarus Project's co-founder Jacks McNamara’s transformative journey from psych ward inpatient to pioneering mental health advocacy. It will be screening at 3 festivals in the UK this fall. Come out if you are in England or Scotland!

Bay Area Icarus Hosts Community Discussion: An Integrative Approach to Madness

Submitted by Icarus Project on Sat, 10/22/2011 - 3:13pm
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"If madness isn’t what biopsychiatry says it is, what is it? If we don’t agree with what biopsychiatry says, then we probably don’t agree with the treatment practices. For us to have some kind of intelligible answer to a first-year psychiatry intern who can tell you: it’s a brain disorder and every minute that it’s not being medicated, there’s irreparable damage being done.  The people who fund the research are the big phama companies that psychiatry represents.  A psychiatrist now can see 30-40 clients a day. Psychiatry says: this group of Icarus folks can sing Kumbaya all you want, but we own it.  I don’t believe that."

Richmond VA Local Group selling T-Shirts

Submitted by Icarus Project on Thu, 12/15/2011 - 3:23pm

The Mind(ful) Liberation Project in Richmond, VA - an Icarus-inspired local group - is selling some great "Peer Support Now" t-shirts to fund their distro work. Check em out and buy 1 or 2.

$7 each, get them while you can

A Vision of Embracing Restorative Justice in the Icarus Project Community

Submitted by Icarus Project on Tue, 12/20/2011 - 4:12pm

I’ve been involved with Bay Area Icarus for over a year now.  In that time, not only have I watched internal conflict and miscommunications tear apart our group, but I have heard many stories from around the country of other Icarus Project groups falling apart over the years due to groups not knowing how to deal with conflict and disagreement. We all want to create a safe and supportive space, but unless we find a way to hold each other accountable and resolve conflict in a respectful way, it seems that we are inevitably just going to keep getting harmed.  If we want to develop long term, sustainable support networks we need to find ways to heal harm done within our communities so that everyone involved can feel respected and heard. 

 

Letting Insanity Speak - By Alix LeClair - The Rebirth of Campus Icarus at NYU

Submitted by Icarus Project on Mon, 02/27/2012 - 11:33pm
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Alix LeClair wrote this beautiful paper for Brad Lewis' Mad Science/Mad Pride class at Gallatin last semester. She's interested in starting up a Campus Icarus group, in her words:

"I really want to take the icarus project into reality in new york. I've been asking around at Gallatin and talking to people in my Mad Pride class about it, but you can write something on the website about how myself and some others are trying to get the
campus icarus at NYU started again.They can email me AFL255@nyu.edu I
have a lot of ideas but I can't put it into practice on my own and I'm scared about being a "leader" of anything, and I'm sure others will be interested if they only knew the group was there."

 

 

A Gathering of Wings and Stories in the Darkness: The Icarus Project Reaches a Decade

Submitted by Icarus Project on Wed, 05/30/2012 - 12:07am

This coming September will be the 10th anniversary of our Icarus Project journey. With your participation, we will be celebrating this milestone anniversary. We are asking each of you to reflect back on your own personal journey with The Icarus Project.  We want to celebrate our victories and learn from our mistakes, as well as look forward to what we envision The Icarus Project to be over the next 10 years. Currently on the agenda: re-designing the website; revising and updating all of our publications; creating a 10th Anniversary story sharing archive; as well as some organizational restructuring, including getting an advisory board into place.