[caption id="attachment_334428" align="alignright" width="345"] Mad Pride March, Koln, Germany, 2017photo by © Superbass / CC-BY-SA-4.0 (via Wikimedia Commons) [1][/caption]

Today's organizing in the Mad Community has a long and turbulent back story.   Historian Michael Rembis joins us again, this time to relay the remarkable work of mad activists in the 20th Century.

The 20th century was a time of change and increased visibility for people living with

emotional and mental disabilities.  We'll trace remarkable gains  -- and highlight

continued inequities.

 

[caption id="attachment_334429" align="alignleft" width="223"] Michael Rembis[/caption]

 

Michael Rembis [2] is the Director of the Center for Disability Studies and an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University at Buffalo (SUNY).

Produced and hosted by  Eddie Ytuarte.

[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2016-05-16-Mad_Pride_K%C3%B6ln_2016-4975.jpg

[2] https://arts-sciences.buffalo.edu/history/faculty/faculty-directory/rembis-michael.html