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Madness
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.
Read MoreMad 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.
Read MoreMad 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.
Read MoreWhiteout: 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.
Read MoreLiving 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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