Marta Plaza

 

Currently a member of the Mutual Support Group for women in all their diversity and contributes whatever she can to the InsPIRADAS Collective, LoComún and social centres in Madrid such as La Eskalera Karakola and 3peces3.

Drawing on her personal experiences and collective learnings acquired along the way, she has participated in talks and training actions on activism for mental health and mutual support, alternative crisis support, vulnerability and care, mad feminism, violence and violations of rights in the mental health system and more. She is an occasional contributor on these topics in El Salto, Mad in America Hispanohablante and Pikara Magazine. She took part in the documentary titled Estado de Malestar (2019), by María Ruido. She co-authored the work titled Caring Without Restraining. International Experiences of Mental Healthcare Free from Mechanical Restraints and wrote the chapter Mad Feminism. Psychiatric Patients Losing Patience (Finally) in the book Feminism: Perspectives from Diversity (2020).

Conducts sofa activism on Twitter as @Gacela1980.