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Minneapolis-based author Sasha Warren will give a presentation on his new book Storming Bedlam: Madness, Utopia, and Revolt. Storming Bedlam is a radical rereading of the history, theory, and practice of psychiatry that emphasizes the utopian origins of the psychiatric revolution and its roots in the political and economic revolutions of the 18th and 19th centuries. This presentation will include a reading accompanied by slides and some short film clips. Afterwards, Sasha will answer audience questions.

Sasha Warren is a writer and mental health worker based in Minneapolis. He co-founded the support group Hearing Voices-Twin Cities in 2018. In 2020, he started a research project called Of Unsound Mind on psychiatry and the law. In 2024, he and Mel Butler relaunched the North American chapter of the Network of Alternatives to Psychiatry. In March 2024, he published his debut book Storming Bedlam: Madness, Utopia, and Revolt with Common Notions Press.