{"id":7397,"date":"2022-01-18T23:01:44","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T04:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/?post_type=event&#038;p=7397"},"modified":"2022-01-28T14:45:40","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T19:45:40","slug":"living-in-madness-decolonization-creation-healing","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/event\/living-in-madness-decolonization-creation-healing\/","title":{"rendered":"Living in Madness: Decolonization, Creation, Healing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 47th annual Scholar and Feminist Conference organized by BCRW is entitled &#8220;Living in Madness: Decolonization, Creation, Healing.&#8221; The conference will be virtual and sessions will take place over a period of weeks from February to April, 2022.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This conference will explore experiences of madness, disability, survival, and refusal<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> through the frameworks of mad studies, disability justice, and artistic practice. <\/span>Scholars, artists, activists, and practitioners will interrogate structures of medicalization and institutionalization, engaging in <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">dialogue about the entanglement of psy-disciplines with colonial and nation-building projects predicated on scientific racism, misogyny, xenophobia, transphobia, and eugenics. We ask how structural violence has both created maddening conditions and established the terms by which survivors are pathologized, criminalized and alienated.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Among the questions we want to explore are those posed by conference panelist Camille Robcis in her intellectual history of institutional psychotherapy, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (2021), specifically how movements that have attempted to decolonize and otherwise contest the practices of psychiatry can provide us with frameworks to understand our own positioning vis-\u00e0-vis \u201cthe permanence of extreme-right movements, fascisms real and \u2018in our heads,\u2019 still spreading and gaining force throughout the world.\u201d We take inspiration as well from our <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=z8ub-pHRvTM&amp;t=1s\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fall 2021 event with La Marr Jurelle Bruce<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, whose critical discourse about madness encompasses unruliness, radical creativity, and rage in the face of systems that have used the concept of Blackness as disability to foreclose the possibilities of Black freedom. Our conference dialogues will also engage calls for intersectional approaches to abolition and decarceralization address disability and madness, and the imperative to center the experiences of indigenous and Palestinian people resisting psychic oppression while living under occupation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The impetus for this conference comes as we collectively persist while a virus has exposed structural violence and inadequacy of <\/span>profit-based systems of care<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and we are also confronted with increased ecological fragility. We are now understandably asking questions about the shakiness of human experience, and how to reckon with what might be called \u201cunlivable states of mind.\u201d War, ecological destruction, land dispossession, occupation and policing, precarious access to shelter, and confinement in a total institution are among the conditions that are maddening, and yet upheld by powerful schemas that place value on profit, property, and hierarchy over collective wellbeing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Gathering together, we explore potential modes of healing. Like seeds we plant without knowing which will root, we pursue collectivity and creativity in order to keep living.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Un-Conference Program\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h5><b><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/return-to-nature-2-150x100.jpeg\" height=\"100\" width=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-7421 imgix-fluid alignleft\" alt=\"Alt: View through perforated metal panel showing modern buildings with bird silhouettes in the sky.\"  > <a href=\"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/event\/willful-subjects-decolonizing-the-psychiatric-institution\/\">Willful Subjects*: Decolonizing the Psychiatric Institution<\/a><br \/>\n<\/b><strong>Wednesday 2\/23, 6:30 p.m. ET\u00a0<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5><strong>Panel discussion with Liat Ben-Moshe, Emily Ng, Camille Robcis, and Lara Sheehi, moderated by Ann Pellegrini<\/strong><b><\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This panel explores institutional histories of psychiatry, focused on anti-institutional movements, radical institution-building, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and alternate approaches to psychic life <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">by practitioners and clinicians challenging the use of mental health systems as sites of state power, political oppression, and psychic violence.\u00a0 Our conversation will thread together case studies from the United States, China, France, and Palestine with: Liat Ben Moshe, author of<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(2020); Emily Ng, author of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A Time of Lost Gods: Mediumship, Madness, and the Ghost after Mao <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(2020); Camille Robcis, author of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(2021); and Lara Sheehi, co-author with Stephen Sheehi of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (2022), reflecting on the power of collective imagination, willful subjectivity, and witnessing as forms of resistance.\u00a0<\/span><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">*Title references Sara Ahmed\u2019s <\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Willful Subjects<\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (2014).\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"button warning radius\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/willful-subjects-decolonizing-the-psychiatric-institution-tickets-256423488557\">ATTEND<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-7423 imgix-fluid alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Demeanor-150x100.jpg\" alt=\"Mad Room Demeanor\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/event\/whiteout-how-racial-capitalism-changed-the-color-of-heroin-in-america\/\"><strong>Whiteout: How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Heroin in America<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<b>The Roslyn Silver &#8217;27 Science Lecture by Helena Hansen, in conversation with Beck-Jordan Young\u00a0<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tuesday 3\/8, 6:30 p.m.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Psychiatrist-anthropologist Helena Hansen will be joined by Beck Jordan-Young, Professor of Women&#8217;s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Barnard College, to discuss her work in her forthcoming book, <em>Whiteout: How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Heroin in America.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dr. Helena Hansen is an MD, PhD psychiatrist-anthropologist who has used ethnography to study the introduction of new addiction pharmaceuticals. She examined the social and political implications of clinicians\u2019 efforts to establish addiction as a biomedical, rather than moral or social condition, as well as the ways that neurochemical treatments may be re-inscribing hierarchies of ethnicity and race. She completed a feature length visual documentary based on this work, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Managing the Fix<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which debuted at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association. Her book <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Addicted to Christ: Remaking Men in Puerto Rican Pentecostal Drug Ministries<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was published by UC Press in 2018. Hansen\u00a0 is also leading a national movement for training of clinical practitioners to address social determinants of health, which she and Jonathan Metzl call \u201cStructural Competency,\u201d and which is the subject of her second book, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Structural Competency in Medicine and Mental Health: A Case-Based Approach to Treating the Social Determinants of Health<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, with co-editor Jonathan Metzl, published by Springer Press in 2019. <i>Whiteout: How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Heroin in America <\/i>(UC Press, forthcoming), co-authored with policy analyst Jules Netherland and historian David Herzberg, is her third book.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She is the recipient of the Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Investigator Award, Kaiser Permanente Burche Minority Leadership Award, an NIH K01 Award, a Mellon Sawyer Seminar grant, the NYU Golden Dozen Teaching Award, the American Association of Directors of Psychiatry Residency Training Model Curriculum Award, and an honorary doctorate from Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"button warning radius\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/whiteout-how-racial-capitalism-changed-the-color-of-heroin-in-america-tickets-256521541837\">ATTEND<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/tessa-mars-a-vision-of-peace-150x100.jpeg\" height=\"100\" width=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-7426 imgix-fluid\" alt=\"A surreal artwork illustrating women with faces emerging from natural elements like corn and leaves, symbolizing connection to nature and spirituality.\"  > <a href=\"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/event\/mad-blackness-rage-resistance-refusal\/\">Mad Blackness*: Rage, Resistance, Refusal\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Tuesday 3\/22, 6:30 p.m. ET\u00a0<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5><strong>Panel discussion with La Marr Jurelle Bruce, Kelly Baker Josephs, Th\u00e9ri Pickens, and JT Roane, moderated by Kaiama Glover\u00a0<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This panel brings together scholars delving into the myriad ways that radical black creativity confronts quotidian anti-black violence and its ensuing traumas. While exploring distinct life histories, geographies and bodies of literature\/performance, the scholarship of La Marr Jurelle Bruce (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 2021), Kelly Baker Josephs (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Disturbers of the Peace: Representations of Madness in Anglophone Caribbean Literature<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 2013), Ther\u00ed Pickens (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mad Blackness::Black Madness<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 2019), and JT Roane (\u201cSpitting Back at Law and Order: Donnetta Hill\u2019s Rage in an Era of Vengeance,\u201d 2021) demystifies and responds to generations of historical and contemporary criminalization of black rage, refusal, and self-possession with careful and complicated portraits of mad black personhood and art-making across the black diaspora. In conversation, we consider how to practice an ethics of defiance against a maddening logic that brands blackness as always already \u201ccrazy.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Title references Ther\u00ed Pickens&#8217; <\/em>Mad Blackness::Black Madness\u00a0<em>(2019).\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"button warning radius\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/mad-blackness-rage-resistance-refusal-tickets-256517198847\">ATTEND<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/daughtermigrates-full-wordpress-150x100.jpg\" height=\"100\" width=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-7430 imgix-fluid\" alt=\"Diverse woman silhouette with flowers and leaves, representing women\u2019s empowerment and research.\"  > <a href=\"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/event\/mad-mapping-a-guide-to-create-an-emotional-safety-plan\/\">Mad Mapping: A Guide to Create an Emotional Safety Plan<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Workshop with Fireweed Collective facilitated by Antoinette Chen-See and Lilac Vylette Maldonado<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thursday, 4\/7 6 p.m. ET\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How do mad, disabled, and neurodivergent people center our liberation as we survive and organize? Emotional Safety Plans (Mad Maps) are documents we create that help us to navigate our emotional terrains, particularly as they relate to issues like oppression and trauma. In Fireweed Collective&#8217;s Mad Mapping workshop, we will explore anti-oppressive approaches to emotional wellbeing, as well as build strategies for coping with and transforming individual struggles, especially in the larger context of social injustice. Join us as we learn about emotional safety planning and explore what we need to feel supported in our relationships and communities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"button warning radius\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/mad-mapping-a-guide-to-creating-an-emotional-safety-plan-tickets-256513578017\">ATTEND<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/tsoku-maela-a-brief-reminder-of-solitude-150x100.jpeg\" height=\"100\" width=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-7433 imgix-fluid\" alt=\"A person lying on a bed reaching towards a single rose, emphasizing themes of longing and tenderness.\"  > <a href=\"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/event\/the-art-of-madness\/\">The Art of Madness: Catastrophe, Memory, Desire<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>A panel discussion with Mimi Kh\u00fac, Jess X. Snow, and Mariam Bazeed, moderated by Vani Natarajan\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><b><br \/>\n<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tuesday, 4\/12, 6:30 p.m.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Three multimedia artists whose work forges pathways to healing amid trauma and grief will present recent works and reflect in dialogue about their creative processes. Mimi Kh\u00fac is a writer, scholar, \u201cteacher of things unwell,\u201d and editor of the collective hybrid book art project,<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aalrmag.org\/shop\/p\/open-in-emergency\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Open in Emergency<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which takes a decolonizing approach to mental health by asking \u201cwhat Asian American unwellness looks like and how to tend to that unwellness.\u201d Mariam Bazeed is a writer and performer, at work on a puppet show in collaboration with Jacob Nader. The project, which they describe as \u201cpart-exhumation, part expurgation, part exorcism,\u201d re-members their long-dead parents, whose tragic departures and enduring presences follow Mariam through the most banal and extraordinary of their days. Writer, artist, and arts educator Jess X. Snow wrote and directed the film<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jessxsnow.com\/LITTLE-SKY\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Little Sky<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the story of a non-binary drag sensation who returns to their hometown to face their estranged father and the childhood memories that continue to haunt them. These artists will discuss their works and the questions that circulate among them with moderator, writer, and Barnard librarian Vani Natarajan, MFA Candidate in Poetry at Queens College.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"button warning radius\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/we-must-allow-ourselves-to-hurt-artists-and-community-healing-tickets-256504691437\">ATTEND<\/a><\/p>\n<h5><strong>Accessibility<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Live transcription and ASL interpretation will be provided. Please email any additional access needs to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:skreitzb@barnard.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">skreitzb@barnard.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This event is free and open to all.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Events will stream on BCRW&#8217;s YouTube Channel. RSVP to receive links to the livestreams closer to the dates of the events.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>About the Speakers<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><b>Liat Ben-Moshe<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is an interdisciplinary scholar-activist working at the intersection of disability\/madness, incarceration\/decarceration and abolition. She is the author of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (University of Minnesota Press 2020) and co-editor of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Disability Incarcerated <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Palgrave 2014). Dr. Ben-Moshe is an Associate Professor of Criminology, Law and Justice at the University of Illinois at Chicago. For more: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.liatbenmoshe.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/www.liatbenmoshe.com\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>La Marr Jurelle Bruce<\/b>\u00a0(B.A. Columbia; Ph.D. Yale) is a cultural and literary critic, Black\/black studies devotee, first-generation college graduate, and Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. His scholarship explores and activates black expressive cultures\u2014spanning literature, film, music, theatre, religion, and especially the art and aesthetics of quotidian black life. Winner of the Joe Weixlmann Essay Prize from\u00a0<i>African American Review<\/i>, he has also published in\u00a0<i>American Quarterly<\/i>,\u00a0<i>The Black Scholar<\/i>,\u00a0<i>GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies<\/i>,\u00a0<i>Social Text<\/i>, and\u00a0<i>TDR<\/i>.\u00a0His debut book,\u00a0<i>How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind: Madness and Black Radical Creativity<\/i>,<i>\u00a0<\/i>was supported by Ford and Mellon fellowships and earned the Nicol\u00e1s Guill\u00e9n Outstanding Book Award. Now he is in the thick of a project on\u2014and experiment in\u2014convergences of love and madness. He sometimes calls it\u00a0<i>The Afromantic<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Antoinette Chen-See<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (She\/They) is a multidisciplinary organizer, builder, and community weaver for the people. From coordinating and throwing qtpoc benefit parties with the Ships in the Night Collective for 8 years, to practicing in co-counseling and support team work for over 10 years, Antoinette\u2019s passions include bringing people together in loving, healing and fantastic ways. As a Queer Jamaican American, Antoinette\u2019s work is guided by the desire to create communities that move us closer to healing and liberation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Dr. Helena Hansen<\/strong> is an MD, PhD psychiatrist-anthropologist who has used ethnography to study the introduction of new addiction pharmaceuticals. She examined the social and political implications of clinicians\u2019 efforts to establish addiction as a biomedical, rather than moral or social condition, as well as the ways that neurochemical treatments may be re-inscribing hierarchies of ethnicity and race. She completed a feature length visual documentary based on this work, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Managing the Fix<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which debuted at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association. Her book <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Addicted to Christ: Remaking Men in Puerto Rican Pentecostal Drug Ministries<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was published by UC Press in 2018. Hansen\u00a0 is also leading a national movement for training of clinical practitioners to address social determinants of health, which she and Jonathan Metzl call \u201cStructural Competency,\u201d and which is the subject of her second book, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Structural Competency in Medicine and Mental Health: A Case-Based Approach to Treating the Social Determinants of Health<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, with co-editor Jonathan Metzl, published by Springer Press in 2019. Her third book, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Whiteout: How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Heroin in America<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, with policy analyst Jules Netherland and historian David Herzberg, is forthcoming from UC Press.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She is the recipient of the Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Investigator Award, Kaiser Permanente Burche Minority Leadership Award, an NIH K01 Award, a Mellon Sawyer Seminar grant, the NYU Golden Dozen Teaching Award, the American Association of Directors of Psychiatry Residency Training Model Curriculum Award, and an honorary doctorate from Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Kelly Baker Josephs<\/b>\u00a0is Professor of English at York College, City University of New York, and Professor of English and digital humanities at the CUNY Graduate Center. She is the author of\u00a0<i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.upress.virginia.edu\/title\/4572\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.upress.virginia.edu\/title\/4572&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1642691741842000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1YDTaqLPeo-omyqYtEBRbm\">Disturbers of the Peace: Representations of Insanity in Anglophone Caribbean Literature<\/a><\/i>\u00a0(University of Virginia Press, 2013)\u00a0and\u00a0coeditor of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.upress.umn.edu\/book-division\/books\/the-digital-black-atlantic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.upress.umn.edu\/book-division\/books\/the-digital-black-atlantic&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1642691741843000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2aU0_I-SplxnOaEfhREEgo\"><i>The Digital Black Atlantic<\/i><\/a> (University of Minnesota Press, 2021).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mimi Kh\u00fac<\/strong> (she\/her) is a writer, scholar, and teacher of things unwell. She is the managing editor of The Asian American Literary Review, guest editor of Open in Emergency: A Special Issue on Asian American Mental Health, and an adjunct. She is very slowly working on several book projects, including a creative-critical work on mental health and the university. But mostly she spends her time baking, as access and care for herself and loved ones.<\/p>\n<p><b>Lilac Vylette Maldonado <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(she\/they) is a community organizer and culture worker who identifies as a sick &amp; disabled, neurodivergent, Two-Spirit, Chicanx femme. She has been actively organizing since 2009 around many intersectional social justice issues such as racial justice, gender justice, disability justice, LGBTQIA+ issues, and body autonomy and acceptance. They are an avid zinester who has written and created artwork for various academic and social justice themed DIY booklets. She is a co-founding member of and logistics coordinator for the Los Angeles Spoonie Collective, a grassroots disability justice group connecting disabled activists and artists to community organizing and education opportunities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Emily Ng<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is Term Assistant Professor in Asian &amp; Middle Eastern Cultures at Barnard College, Columbia University, and a member of the RURALIMAGINATIONS project at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam. Her work, ethnographic and otherwise, touches on madness between grammars of spirit mediumship and psychiatry, loss and cosmic reverberations of sovereignty, and political temporalities and aesthetics of rurality in China. She is author of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A Time of Lost Gods: Mediumship, Madness, and the Ghost after Mao<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (University of California Press, 2020).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ann Pellegrini<\/strong> is Professor of Performance Studies and Social and Cultural Analysis at NYU.\u00a0They are the author of\u00a0<i>Performance Anxieties: Staging Psychoanalysis, Staging Race<\/i>\u00a0(Routledge, 1997); co-author, with Janet R. Jakobsen, of\u00a0<i>Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance<\/i>\u00a0(NYU Press, 2003; Beacon Press, 2004); and co-author, with Michael Bronski and Michael Amico,\u00a0<i>of \u201cYou Can Tell Just By Looking\u201d and 20 Other Myths about LGBT Life and People<\/i> (Beacon Press, 2013).\u00a0Pellegrini has published two anthologies:\u00a0<i>Queer Theory and the Jewish Question<\/i>, co-edited with Daniel Boyarin and Danial Itzkovitz (Columbia University Press, 2003); and\u00a0<i>Secularisms<\/i>, co-edited with Janet R. Jakobsen (Duke University Press, 2008). She is founding co-editor, with Jos\u00e9 Mu\u00f1oz, of the \u201cSexual Cultures\u201d Series, at New York University Press, which she now co-edits with Joshua Chambers-Letson and Tavia Nyong\u2019o. Pellegrini is a licensed psychoanalyst. They and Dr. Avgi Saketopoulou received the first Tiresias Paper Award, in 2021, from the International Psychoanalytic Association for their co-written paper: \u201cA feminine boy: normative investments and reparative fantasy at the intersections of gender, race, and religion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>Ther\u00ed Pickens<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is Professor of English at Bates College, focusing on Arab American, African American literatures and cultures, disability, philosophy, and literary theory. Her books include <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">New Body Politics: Narrating Arab and Black Identity in the Contemporary United States <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Routledge, 2014) and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Black Madness :: Mad Blackness <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Duke University Press, 2019), and the edited collection <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Arab American Aesthetics: LIterature, Material Culture, Film, and Theatre <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Routledge 2018). Her critical writing has appeared in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hypatia, MELUS, Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, Disability Studies Quarterly, Al-Jadid, Women and Performance, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Journal of Ethnic American Literature,<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as well as the ground-breaking anthology, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Blackness and Disability: Critical Examinations and Cultural Interventions<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Defying the GLobal Language: Perspectives in Ethnic Studies<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming from <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Omnium Gatherum Quarterly, Diode, The Journal, Wordgathering, Squ** Valley Journal, Black Renaissance\/Renaissance Noire, Save the Date,<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Disability Studies Quarterly<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Her original drama writing has been performed at the NJ State theater.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>J.T. Roane<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University. He received his Ph.D. in history from Columbia University and he is a 2008 graduate of the Carter G. Woodson Institute at the University of Virginia. He currently serves as the lead of the Black Ecologies Initiative at ASU&#8217;s Institute for Humanities Research. He is the former co-senior editor of Black Perspectives, the digital platform of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS). Roane&#8217;s scholarly essays have appeared in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Souls Journal<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Review of Black Political Economy<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Current Research in Digital History<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Signs<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. His work has also appeared in venues such as <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Washington Post<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Brooklyn Rail<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pacific Standard<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Immanent Frame<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Camille Robcis <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is Professor of French and History at Columbia University.\u00a0 She specializes in Modern European History with an emphasis on gender and sexuality, France, and intellectual, cultural, and legal history.\u00a0 She is especially interested in the intersections of politics and ideas. She is the author of The Law of Kinship: Anthropology, Psychoanalysis, and the Family in France (Cornell, 2013) and of Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in France (Chicago, 2021). She has received fellowships from the Penn Humanities Forum, LAPA (Princeton Law and Public Affairs), the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Institute for Advanced Study, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. She is currently working on a new book tentatively titled The Gender Question: Populism, National Reproduction, and the Crisis of Representation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Lara Sheehi<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, PsyD (she\/hers), is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology at the George Washington University&#8217;s Professional Psychology Program. She teaches decolonial, liberatory and anti-oppressive theories and approaches to clinical treatment, case conceptualization, and community consultation. She is the president-elect of the Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology (APA Division 39), and the chair of the Teachers&#8217; Academy of the American Psychoanalytic Association. She is co-editor of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Studies in Gender and Sexuality <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and co-editor of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CounterSpace<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Psychoanalysis, Culture, and Society<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Lara is on the advisory board to the USA\u2013Palestine Mental Health Network and Psychoanalysis for Pride. She is co-author with Stephen Sheehi of the book <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Routledge, 2022).<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><strong>Image Detail<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Conference graphic adapted from a May &#8217;68 poster reproduced in Camille Robcis&#8217;s <em>Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France<\/em> (2021), sourced from the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. 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