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Frank Blankenship
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Frank Tyler Blankenship is a psychiatric survivor human rights activist. He keeps a blog on the subject of surviving psychiatric oppression, Lunatic Fringe. He is a member of the organization MindFreedom International, directed by David Oaks, and based in Eugene, Oregon. Part of his role with this organization has been to help people establish MindFreedom affiliates around the USA and abroad.

He has in the past worked with the social justice organization Virginia Organizing, then known as the Virginia Organizing Project. Virginia Organizing is directed by Joe Szakos. He has also worked advocating for change in the mental health system of that state. For a short time he broadcast a public access television program in Charlottesville Virginia on local issues, The Frank Blankenship Show.

Since relocating to Gainesville in north central Florida around the beginning 2009, following the death of his mother, he has been steadily engaged in the organizing of MindFreedom Florida, a Florida affiliate of MindFreedom International.