A club for people who are changing the world and living with mental ill-health, distress and trauma*

* Yes, it’s a mouthful, but words matter.

Online peer support for social changemakers

If you’re working in social change and you have experience of mental ill-health, distress and trauma, you’re not alone. Antinormality Club is a space for you to find support and solidarity.

We bring people together to share our stories, care for each other and build collective power.

We believe that mental health is political, that Madness can be a source of pride, and that peer support can change the world.

We’re Antinormality because normal doesn’t work for us.

Normal is a mould that nobody fits. We want to be seen as the unique human beings that we are, just as we are. When we’re going through pain and distress, we don’t want shame – we want support.   

Normal is a world in crisis, where systems of oppression and extraction harm people and nature on a daily basis. Instead of the status quo, we want a future full of liberation, healing and cooperation.  

  • If our history has taught us anything, it is that action for change directed only against the external conditions of our oppressions is not enough.

    Audre Lorde

  • I embrace the term Mad because I want to make sure that any movement that I'm a part of leaves no one behind.

    Wilda White

  • The engine of change is love. The love we were denied is our drive to change the world.

    Lohana Perkins

  • The system is really good at having us just focus on surviving so much that we don’t have the time to collectively come together and heal in community.

    Jennifer Mullan

  • My broken heart is not a judgment or a crime. It is a detailed record of how I have tried to meet the violence of the world with as much openness as possible.

    Lama Rod Owens

  • If we push our thinking about mental health to be as political as possible, it becomes easier to link it up with other liberation struggles, and to create a world where we all suffer less.

    Micha Frazer-Carroll

  • It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

    Jiddu Krishnamurti