Blezzing Dada (she/her/they), from Dublin, Ireland, is a Black-Irish mental health activist, & blogger, who’s passionate on various social justice issues, especially with a focus of intersectionality within the mental health spaces, shaped by transformative justice, harm reduction & anti-capitalist frameworks.Accompanied with her own lived experiences with all things mental health, being multiple chronically ill, neurodivergent and disabled, they shed perspectives, for Black & other ethnic minority + further marginalised communities in Ireland. Being involved with numerous community groups, they can be found participating in mutual aid work, podcasts & writing to spread awareness: through empathy and education"Intersectionality & collective liberation includes awareness on sanism (akin to racism or sexism.) This idea of madness lies at the centre of a movement called Mad Studies, which arose out of the work of psychiatric service users and survivors.There are lots of problems with the biological model of mental illness that dominates society’s response to ‘madness’."