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"In many communities in our territories, mental health was not discussed until they came to talk to us about mental health, and this implies defining itself through categories imposed by psychiatry."
Birgit Valla has been recognized by the Foundation for the Promotion of Freedom of Expression in Mental Health Care for her work to ensure a fundamental respect for the human being in mental health.
The award for the freedom of expression in mental health care is intended to draw attention to, and help ensure the conditions for, free expression. The board has unanimously decided that Birgit Valla will be awarded the Prize for promoting freedom of expression in mental health care in 2021.
Through these cases, the first of their kind in Norway, the focus will be on the state's responsibility for the concrete observance of human rights in psychiatry.
"My hope is that Mad Studies continues to develop analyses of the ways sanism and ableism intersect with transphobia, homophobia, white supremacy, colonialism, and other mutually constitutive systems of oppression."