Who We Are
We are a support network, advocacy organization and media project by and for people who experience the world in ways that are often diagnosed as mental illness.
Reclaiming History
What do Martin Luther King, Nina Simone, Issac Newton, Virgina Woolf, Pablo Picasso, Sigmund Freud, and Abraham Lincoln have in common? They are all one of us. The history of brilliance in madness is our history.
Reappropriating Language
We are not a diagnosis or a social affliction. We embrace the term “madness” because it connects us to our art, our history and each other.
Community
We hold regular events, workshops and celebrations. We have an active twitter account and an online community at Facebook.
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@NycIcarusOrg Twitter
Mad pride monthly meetup NYC
Join the nyc chapter of madliberation front (@Buddy_devine from Instagram) at Union Square park on August 29th, 2025 from 1-5pm for an afternoon of art expre...
When
Friday, August 29th, 2025
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Where
Union Square Park
Union Square Park
New York, NY 10003
NYC Summer Mad Creative Meetup
Join ‘nyc mad community’ (@nycmadcommunity from Instagram) at Riverbank State Park on July 19th, 2025 for an afternoon of art expression or exploration in co...
When
Saturday, July 19th, 2025
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where
Riverbank State Park
679 Riverside Drive
New York, NY 10031
Mad love and Self love
NYC Icarus brings together our community to discuss love
When
Wednesday, February 5th, 2020
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Where
Bluestockings Books
172 Allen Street
New York, NY
Madness, Creativity, and the Artistic Pursuit with Issa Ibrahim
NYC Icarus brings together our community to Seek creativity
When
Wednesday, Dec 4th, 2019
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Where
Bluestockings Books
172 Allen Street
New York, NY
Madness and Oppression
We've outlined a bunch of ideas to help you identify sources of oppression in your life that can help you place and deal with them.
Harm Reduction Guide to Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs
The Icarus Project and Freedom Center's guide gathers the best information we've come across and the most valuable lessons we've learned about reducing and c...
Navigating The Space Between Brilliance And Madness: A Reader & Roadmap Of Bipolar Worlds
This book emerged out of our website, the Icarus Project, which has been helping a brilliant and disparate group of folks find ways to talk about manic depre...
Friends Make the Best Medicine
We've outlined a bunch of ideas to help you gather people together to start exploring all the brilliance and confusion we hold inside. We hope these suggesti...
Stop the Murphy Bill!
Resources from various events we have hosted this year resisting the Murphy Bill
2016 July: #FirstResort event resources
A list of resources from the April 2016 presentation
Where
The Internet
2016 April: Advanced Directives resources
A list of resources from the April 2016 presentation
Where
The Internet
Bluestockings Cooperative Bookstore
Bluestockings is a 100% volunteer-powered and collectively-owned bookstore, fair trade cafe, and activist center in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Bluesto...
When
Every day
11am to 7pm Tuesday-Sunday/1pm to 7pm on Mondays
Where
Bluestockings
116 Suffolk St
New York, New York 10002