Welcome to the The Icarus Project journals. On this page you can find blogs by our members, co-coordinators, and local groups.
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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 Coordinator Personal Journals
Read entries from the personal blogs of our staff: Sascha, Will, Ashley, & Madigan.
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!

Icaristas from near and far will be gathering at the US Social Forum in Detroit this summer, June 22-26.
The second annual Reelabilities film festival was held this past weekend in the NY metropolitan area. The festival’s mission statement cites “dedication to promoting awareness and appreciation of the lives, stories and artistic expressions of people with different disabilities.” In addition to award-winning films the weekend’s events included discussions and other special programs intended to “bring together the community to explore, discuss and celebrate the diversity of our shared human experience.”
Icarus-NYC local and Icarus intergalactic organized a showcase of creativity in Brooklyn to benefit Icarus efforts - more than 150 people showed up for a fun evening of poetry art and music. Check out the photos, video, and audio from this memorable occasion...

Icaristas Sam Kendakur, Will Hall, and Bonfire Madigan Shive presented at the Rethinking Psychiatric Crisis: Alternative Responses to First Breaks conference in New York City. They joined more than 200 researchers, people with psychiatric diagnoses, policymakers, clinicians, advocates, and family members from several countries including Finland and the UK to discuss effective hospital, labeling, and force alternatives. Check out the slideshow here, and more info at the
Icarus co-coordinator Annie Robinson just had an essay published in the
River swimming, cross country touring, backyard (vegan) barbecuing,
Campus Icarus Project at Evergreen State College organized a week of Mad Pride events June 1-5, including film showings, discussions and presentations, a spoken word gathering, vigil, a string labyrinth in the campus square, acupuncture demonstration, activist strategy, and more...
Mental Health Clients and Psychiatric Survivors to Lead Protest of
Spring is here! Blossoms on trees, warmer days, melting snow and the re-emergence of green. For more than 6 years the wild, unruly growth that is The Icarus Project has been sending roots deep into the soil and spreading tendrils of radical mental health and mutual support throughout society. With the new season Icarus is doing some spring cleaning as we consolidate the work of the past 6 months and gear up for the energizing times ahead, so here is our Spring 2009 update!
Icarus just brought another co-coordinator into the Intergalactic collective, this time to work on the Education and Outreach group out of the New York office. Annie has been a key organizer with Gallatin Campus Icarus at NYU. Read more about Annie, check out the Gallatin 













