Mad Tea
Podcast Description
For too long, mad voices have been silenced, dismissed, or medicalized—it's time to change that. Mad Tea explores the histories, stories, and creative expressions of madness, amplifying its insights, resilience, and brilliance. We challenge stereotypes and reframe madness as a way of understanding culture, art, and activism.
This podcast is an extension of The Center for Mad Culture, a space dedicated to mad voices. Subscribe, share, and join the conversation.
You can support this podcast by finding us on Patreon, where you'll have access to exclusive content!
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The podcast explores diverse topics related to madness, including historical perspectives, cultural implications, and artistic expressions. Episodes specifically highlight the evolution of mental health advocacy, as seen in 'Dunning - Part 1', which discusses the roots of moral therapy, and 'Mad Tea Conversations - melissa grace kreider', focusing on the intersection of art and activism in addressing intimate partner violence.
For too long, mad voices have been silenced, dismissed, or medicalized—it’s time to change that. Mad Tea explores the histories, stories, and creative expressions of madness, amplifying its insights, resilience, and brilliance. We challenge stereotypes and reframe madness as a way of understanding culture, art, and activism.
This podcast is an extension of The Center for Mad Culture, a space dedicated to mad voices. Subscribe, share, and join the conversation.
You can support this podcast by finding us on Patreon, where you’ll have access to exclusive content!
In this episode of Mad Tea, we sit down with Ishaa Vinod Chopra, author of Finding Order in Disorder and founder of the collective by the same name. Ishaa speaks candidly about living with diagnosis, surviving abuse, and navigating the systems that attempt to define her. She reflects on how those experiences shaped her understanding of self rather than ending it.
Our conversation moves toward the body. Toward dance. Toward art-making as a practice of reclaiming authorship. Ishaa shares how movement, visual art, and mad poetry became tools for grounding, expression, and rebuilding identity on her own terms.
This episode invites you to listen closely to how order and disorder are framed in culture. Who decides what is stable? What forms of expression are dismissed before they are understood? Ishaa’s story offers a lived response rooted in creative practice, survival, and collective care.
You can find Ishaa on Instagram – @findingorderindisorder.ngo and @ishaavinodchopra
You can also listen to her podcast on Spotify – ”Finding Order in Disorder Podcast”
You can purchase Finding Order in Disorder here
You can find Ishaa's YouTube channel here
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