Online
Apr 12, 2022 | 6:30PM

The Art of Madness: Catastrophe, Memory, Desire

Mimi Khúc, Jess X. Snow, and Bazeed, moderated by Vani Natarajan  

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.

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art, Madness, trauma

Online
Apr 7, 2022 | 6:00PM

Mad Mapping: A Guide to Creating an Emotional Safety Plan

Antoinette Chen-See and Lilac Vylette Maldonado, Fireweed Collective

In Fireweed Collective'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.

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mad maps, Madness

Online
Mar 22, 2022 | 6:30PM

Mad Blackness*: Rage, Resistance, Refusal 

La Marr Jurelle Bruce, Kelly Baker Josephs, Théri Pickens, and JT Roane, moderated by Kaiama L. Glover 

This panel in the 47th annual Scholar and Feminist Conference, "Living in Madness: Decolonization, Creation, Healing," brings together scholars delving into the myriad ways that radical black creativity confronts quotidian anti-black violence and its ensuing traumas.

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blackness, Madness

Online
Mar 8, 2022 | 6:30PM

Whiteout: How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Heroin in America

Helena Hansen in conversation with Beck Jordan-Young

For this year's Silver Science Lecture, in conjunction with the 47th annual Scholar and Feminist Conference, "Living in Madness: Decolonization, Creation, Healing," psychiatrist-anthropologist Helena Hansen will be joined in by Beck Jordan-Young to discuss the material intersections of addiction, social conditions, and racial violence.

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Madness

Online
February - April 2022

Living in Madness: Decolonization, Creation, Healing

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.

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mad studies, Madness, Scholar and Feminist Conference

How to Go Mad Without Losing Your Mind: Madness and Black Radical Creativity

La Marr Jurelle Bruce in conversation with Farah Jasmine Griffin on Bruce's new book, How to Go Mad Without Losing Your Mind: Madness and Black Radical Creativity.

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Black Studies, blackness, Farah Jasmine Griffin, La Marr Jurelle Bruce, Madness