Community mental health response centering psychiatric survivors, system impacted people, and the Mad community in Portland, OR
Call Bubbie is community-based, mental health response for and by people who identify as mad, mentally ill, neurodivergent, and disabled (MMIND). We take an explicitly anti-sanist, abolitionist, and compassion-based stand in our care.
Our goal is to reduce the amount of psychiatric survivors and warmly reconnect those who are part of our MMIND community to supports that see their experiences and feelings as valuable, insightful, and important.
We approach all interactions in the warmest, gentlest way we can while knowing that an individual is the expert on themselves and should be always be allowed choice. This approach is informed by what we needed but did not receive when subjected to the Medical Industrial Complex ourselves.
Community Responders
Bee Shuler (they/he/she)
Executive Director
Bee is a white, Jewish peer support specialist that sounds a little bit like Carl from ATHF. They are a psychiatric survivor/mad. Their focus includes bringing warmth/humor to the folks they work with while getting through the flowery bs of social work/systems that’s used to uphold power dynamics.
Nimma B. (they/them)
Nimma has been in healthcare for 9 years working as a massage therapist for queer and disabled communities. They are a mad, disabled, psych and extreme trauma survivor, mixed Native, queer, 2Spirit, trans, community organizer and volunteer.
Sierra Gonzalez (she/Sierra)
Sierra is a fat, multiracial, social justice advocate working with systems impacted youth, here in Portland. She brings an education background in social work but is rooted in her lived experience, especially having an incarcerated parent. Sierra loves working in her community, pouring love and encouragement into others.
Holly (she/they)
She is a white, mad, disabled, trans femme, and queer settler living on stolen land. Holly has been engaged in advocacy around madness on and off for over a decade. Holly is also a historian, researching philosophy and history as it relates to concepts of disability and madness.
Grant Maven 👸🏻
Maya (she/her)
Maya is a white, Jewish, mad, queer advocate with lived experience of anxiety, depression, and trauma. She has been working in community resourcing and social change for over a decade. She is a grants and fundraising maven for Call Bubbie and beyond, as well as an artist and researcher.
Advisory Board
Cat Hollis (they/them)
Invisibly disabled, nonbinary, mixed light skinned Black, Sex work and labor rights advocate. Playwright, artist, parent.
Derrick Quevedo (isu | siyá)
Derrick is a Racialized, Queer, Disabled, Mad, Neurodivergent writer, artist, and cat parent. Siyá has a particular interest in addressing intersectionality and multiple marginalization.
Tre Madden (they/them)
Tre is a white, mad, queer, chronically ill quadriplegic student pursuing an MA in Disability Studies at CUNY. Currently institutionalized in an adult care home in outer Northeast Portland, they care deeply about abolition, access intimacy, and disability justice. Beyond facilitation and political education, they enjoy reading, writing poetry and plays, and exploring the microecologies of Portland in their power chair, Cascadia.