MITA is a grassroots feminist mental health literacy and advocacy organization for women- and queer-identified individuals who have been affected by the mental health industry or the stigma of mental illness through holistic support, community-based outreach, and literacy projects. The group is comprised of members in the Western New York area and beyond who care about justice, civil rights, literacy, mental health, and the humane treatment of those affected by the psychiatric industry and the stigma attached to what is called "mental illness."Madwomen in the Attic considers itself part of the Network Against Coercive Psychiatry and the revolutionary Mad Pride Movement to end the use of forced "psychiatric treatment" as a means of medicalized social control. MITA is part of a larger effort, started by Thomas Szasz, to stop the totalitarian use of psychiatry to control people, especially women. Our mission is to organize in order to fight against the violations of human rights that George Orwell warned of in his novel "1984," in which mental health professionals serve as "Big Brother" maintaining social normativity and imparting the enforcement of conformity.