Taking seriously the trauma of colonial late-capitalism on all non-normative bodies and behaviors, this workshop is structured as a peer-facilitated dialogue, with the goal of collectively brainstorming how we might cultivate accountable, healthy relationships to our notions of "madness" as they relate to our struggles for queer and trans liberation within our many, varied communities, prioritizing self care and personal autonomy. Mapping "madness" onto the current North American colonial landscape requires a sense of how multiple socially engineered traumas interlock to produce the linked oppressions of psychiatrization, psycho-pathologization, disability, racialization, oppositional sexism, homo/transphobia, poverty and incarc eration. Part historical analysis, part focused brainstorm, and part resource sharing, this workshop attempts to construct a safe space in which to think through the idea of "madness" as a social process, a personal experience and a site for community building. This workshop aims to historicize madness alongside queerness or non-gender-conformity. It also endeavors to function as a strategizing session, specifically to think through how we can frame coherent opposition to the incarcerative racialized, classed and gendered violence of psychiatry without reinforcing the "mad" and "not mad" binary in our struggle for autonomous self-realization and access to appropriate resources and services for trans and non-gender-conforming folk. The workshop will aim to strategize coalition building between trans and queer movements, disability activism and psych-survivor organizing, asking: who have we made room for in our movements, and who have we left out? Presented by Griffin, a member of the Icarus Project and has previously collaborated with them for projects in New York, and currently works at a drop-in for psychiatrized folks and with DAMN 2025, a radical cross-disability coalition, in Toronto.