Celebrate Mad Pride
Submitted on July 13, 2011
By Jesse McLaren - July 13, 2011
With the rise of capitalism, people who could not fit into narrowly-defined norms of labour productivity, either because of physical or psychiatric differences, became pathologized. Since then mad people have been subjected to diverse methods of "restoring sanity," such as institutionalization, electroshock and "the chemical prison industry" of Big Pharma.
