The Icarus Project

Share your stories of mental health/illness, experiences with the mental health industry, tools for individual and community healing, and dreams of liberation. Bring songs, poems, stories, friends.

Laughing Horse Books 12 NE 10th Portland, Oregon

This event is the kick-off for a new icarus project, a weekly radical mental support group. If you're interested in being part of that but can't make this event, e-mail River at gaias.eye@gmail.com or Julia at julia.smedley2@gmail.com

Art: Christy. C. Road

Campus Icarus student organizing materials are now available for downloading and printing!

Campus Icarus FAQ

Campus Icarus Guide-Cover

Campus Icarus Guide

Campus Icarus Postcard-Front

Campus Icarus Postcard-Back

Questions? Email: campus(at)theicarusproject(dot)net

Join us for a radical community discussion of narratives and strategies in mental health organizing and support hosted by Jacks Ashley McNamara and Sascha Altman DuBrul from the Icarus Project with special guests!

Sunday, Febrary 6, 7-10pm @ Bluestockings

This event is in conjunction with the showing of Crooked Beauty  at the Reelabilities Film Festival. For Crooked Beauty screening times, see the Reelabilities site. 

Sunday, Febrary 6, 7-10pm @ Bluestockings

Last week in San Francisco, local author Ethan Watters spoke to a packed room of Icaristas and friends at the California Institute of Integral Studies about his most recent book: Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche. Ethan's book has been a really successful mainstream critique of the Biopsychiatric model and it was a pleasure having him step into the cultural underground of the Icarus Project for the evening to share ideas. It was a lively discussion which you can listen to here (you might have to download Quicktime 7 if it doesn't work -- sorry for the technical difficulties!)

The Icarus Project Reader Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness is now available in an 11x17" version with scrambled pages ready for printing. You can now get copies printed into books directly from the online file. Thanks to Maamyyra for their design work making the .pdf version.

Download the new version in our Resources section here. 

On the evening of November 5th at Small World Coffee in Princeton, NJ, The Icarus Project’s Mad Gifts Art Show debuted. It proved an environment akin to the community from which it was borne: namely, an open, diverse, and creatively warm group of people. Many came specifically to support Icarus and see Mad Gifts – traveling from New York, Massachusetts, Philadelphia and other surrounding Northeastern areas – but the event also garnered locals who stumbled into the evening – sidetracked by the warm energy after acquiring their usual caffeine fix. The evening included spoken word, live music, and of course the perusing of the many inspired pieces adorning the café’s walls.