Recovering Imaginaries of Illness & Disability in Scottish Literature & Culture: Sources, Contexts, Theory
Études écossaises 23 | 2024 – open access
This special issue of Études écossaises looks at what recovering imaginaries of illness & disability in #Scottish#literature & #CulturalStudies might involve. Contributions deal with a number periods of Scottish culture, & a wide variety of sources & media.
I’m interested in memoirs, blogs etcetera telling stories of resilience, surviving psychiatry, trauma (developmental). Please share them if you know any. #MadLiterature
Lisa Wallace on why she left psychiatric care and why she may return one day
The Soteria model relies on personal relationships, interactive activities, and minimal use of psychiatric medication within a comfortable “living community” as opposed to a conventional psychiatric setting.
#MadLiterature
How Does the Soteria House Heal?
The alternative treatment model of Soteria helps individuals suffering from schizophrenia without relying on medication or coercion.
Call for papers - ‘Intersectional and Critical #ADHD Thought: ADHDers Think Back’, for a special issue of the Canadian Journal of Disability Studies. The editors are seeking critical intersectional papers that “‘think back’, explicitly or implicitly, against medical and denialist models of ADHD.”
“At this point, it is fair to conclude that ADHD Studies is an acritical and non intersectional field, produced by non-ADHDers. What we need is critical and intersectional ADHD knowledge produced by ADHDers themselves.”
Submissions are welcomed from academics, PhD students and activists. See the CfP for a great list of topics, from “Trans-ing while ADHD-ing: questions for intersectional justice,” to critical approaches to ADHD and religious faith.
Empire of Normality
Neurodiversity and Capitalism
by Robert Chapman
This is a priority read for me!
I’m looking forward to how Chapman explains the emergence and rise of the pathology paradigm and its entanglement with the fundamental logic of capitalism. Specifically how the medical and scientific definitions of illness, disability, and normality have grown in response to economic and ideological developments.
…the need to offer a positive account of mental illness—one that does not define the essence of mental illness exclusively as the absence, lack, or failure of the power of reasoning…
On the Importance of Conceptual Contrasts Madness, Reason, and Mad Pride
Awais Aftab
"Perhaps the college or university is in fact exactly the same as the almshouse or asylum, organizationally and even
architecturally. And yet it is viewed as the opposite. Thus the subjects in one total institution, the college, are elevated. The inmates in the other spaces are confined. Importantly: one
studies; the other is studied. "
Morgen Abend halte ich einen Online-Vortrag in der Ringvorlesung des Zentrum für Disability Studies. Es geht ausgehend von den Ergebnissen unseres Gender-KI-Arbeit-Projekts um die "Erwerbsarbeit der Zukunft: #Inklusion durch Künstliche Intelligenz?". Hier mehr zur Anmeldungen und den weiteren Terminen der Vortragsreihe, unten der Ankündigungstext. ⬇️
Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) spielt in der Arbeitswelt eine immer größere Rolle. In öffentlichen Debatten wird sie einerseits als Zukunftstechnologie gefeiert, andererseits mit Arbeitsplatzverlust und Diskriminierungsrisiken in Verbindung gebracht. Behinderte Menschen finden in diesem Diskurs, wie so oft, nur am Rand Erwähnung.
Der Vortrag beleuchtet, wie die Arbeitswelt durch KI verändert wird und welche gesellschaftlichen Erwartungen damit einhergehen. Dabei wird ein besonderes Augenmerk auf die Verbindung zwischen Künstlicher Intelligenz und gesellschaftlichen Machtverhältnissen gelegt. Es wird deutlich, dass Geschlecht, Rassismus und Behinderung sowohl zur Problematisierung als auch zur Legitimierung von KI herangezogen werden. Behinderung rückt besonders ins Zentrum der Aufmerksamkeit, wenn KI mit einem Inklusionsversprechen verknüpft wird. KI soll dazu dienen, „die volle Teilhabe am Erwerbsleben zu verbessern“, heißt es etwa in der Nationalen KI-Strategie von 2018. Gemeinsam mit Ihnen und euch möchte ich darüber diskutieren, was genau dieses Versprechen bedeutet, wer damit adressiert wird und welche relevanten Aspekte der Arbeitswelttransformation dabei möglicherweise übersehen werden.
"Ableism is more than just bias: it's the entire idea that anything can or should be perfect in this universe of entropy and chaos, applied at the level of human bodies and ways of being." - Ashley Shew, Against Technoableism: Rethinking who needs Improvement. #Bookstodon#bookstadon#Reading#Disability#Accessibility#DisabilityStudies
Celebrating the work of Dr Tsitsi Chataika. Her work looks at the intersection of disability studies through gender, religion and policy. Professor Dan Goodley describes her work as 'essential and urgent' in decolonising disability studies.
Philosophy and Madness a combination that makes me smile!!! #MadLiterature
Too mad to be true II - The promises and perils of the first-person perspective
The second Too Mad To Be True conference that was dedicated to exploring the various links between philosophy and madness. The atmosphere was vibrant and it initiated new ways of thinking and communicating around issues of madness and philosophy. The central theme was both relevant to philosophical and mad theories and practices: ' The promises and perils of the first-person perspective'. The conference was hybrid: both in person, in Ghent, Belgium, as well as online.
Busting the Deinstitutionalization Myth: We Actually Have More Beds Than Ever Before
New data upends common beliefs about asylum closures, deinstitutionalization, and rates of psychiatric coercion.
Mad Crip doula: offering holistic and emotional spiritual bodymind care, mixed with practical and crisis support (and plant medicine). moving from a liberation-centered and anti-oppressive lens. a transition doula with skills in: abortion, death, grief, Madness, and Disability.
endorsing: non-carceral, peer-led mental health care systems that exist outside of the state, reimagining everything we’ve come to learn about madness, and intervening in systems that oppress, disappear, and kill Disabled and mad folks.
Please Note: I don’t know Them in any capacity and They sure look bad-ass
Open Minded Online
sharing ideas and resources about holistic approaches to emotional and social wellbeing
We are two people who both have a great passion for holistic approaches to mental health. This passion has grown out of our own experiences of receiving traditional psychiatric treatment and finding it lacking.
We believe that it is possible to make sense of intense states of mind often described as psychosis.
"Bots, Rhymes & Life: Ethics of Automation as If Humans Matter"
Sets a faux rap battle ChatGPT4 v A Tribe Called Quest shows absurdity of ChatGPT4 as capable of thinking. It is as Drs. Bender & Gebru argue a #StochasticParrot
Sanism is nested within and alongside neoliberal virtues. Colonization. Ableism. Racism. and and and.
State violence is the central theme
Upholds the normal/abnormal binary
Historical pathologization of marginalized groups