For too long, mad voices have been silenced, dismissed, or medicalized—it's time to change that. Mad Tea explores the histories, stories, and creative expressions of madness, amplifying its insights, resilience, and brilliance. We challenge stereotypes and reframe madness as a way of understanding culture, art, and activism.
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In this episode of Mad Tea, we sit down with Ishaa Vinod Chopra, author of Finding Order in Disorder and founder of the collective by the same name. Ishaa speaks candidly about living with diagnosis, surviving abuse, and navigating the systems that attempt to define her. She reflects on how those experiences shaped her understanding of self rather than ending it.
Our conversation moves toward the body. Toward dance. Toward art-making as a practice of reclaiming authorship. Ishaa shares how movement, visual art, and mad poetry became tools for grounding, expression, and rebuilding identity on her own terms.
This episode invites you to listen closely to how order and disorder are framed in culture. Who decides what is stable? What forms of expression are dismissed before they are understood? Ishaa’s story offers a lived response rooted in creative practice, survival, and collective care.
You can find Ishaa on Instagram - @findingorderindisorder.ngo and @ishaavinodchopra
You can also listen to her podcast on Spotify - "Finding Order in Disorder Podcast"
You can purchase Finding Order in Disorder here (https://a.co/d/03u7e8Y6)
You can find Ishaa's YouTube channel here (https://www.youtube.com/@findingorderindisorder)
14 Feb 2026
Matthew Jackman Interview
In this first episode of Season Two Matt Bodett sits down with Matthew Jackman for a conversation that moves across art, identity, and the lived experience of madness without reducing any of it to diagnosis. We talk about how culture shapes what gets called disordered, how language can both confine and release, and what it means to claim authorship over your own narrative. Matthew reflects on process, familial history, and the tension between visibility and erasure in ways that feel grounded and urgent. If you care about mad culture as something more than a clinical category, this episode asks you to listen closely and consider how we engage in activism and how we honor our lived experiences.
Matthew Jackman is the founder of The Australian Centre for Living Experience 'TACFLE' - www.tacfle.com (https://www.tacfle.com/)
Find Matthew Jackman on Linkedin: https://au.linkedin.com/in/matthew-jackman-he-him-57b28951 (https://au.linkedin.com/in/matthew-jackman-he-him-57b28951)
13 Dec 2025
Nze Okoronta Interview
Nze Okoronta shares insights on building peer-run crisis alternatives, like SOAR and Solstice House, emphasizing community responses over policing and how lived experience reshapes safety; this is an interview.
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