My essay “Purple Basil Lemonade: Community Rituals for Crip Pasts / Presents / Futures” has been published in the open-access journal New Sociology!
This paper is about making & sharing purple basil lemonade as a method of re-turning (to) the past; refusing capitalist, ableist, and eugenic presents; and dreaming alternative futures that resist the false dichotomy of COVID endangerment vs. isolation.
https://nsjcp.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/default/article/view/142
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Purple Basil Lemonade
| New Sociology: Journal of Critical Praxis
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In February, I facilitated a workshop mapping the futures of #MentalHealth and #Addictions #PeerSupport.
We discussed:
1) visions of the future we are being pulled towards
2) trends of the present pushing us toward particular futures
3) barriers to our preferred futures
4) emerging issues that could dramatically shape the future of peer support
A summary of our discussion is available on the PeerWorks blog:
https://www.peerworks.ca/resources/blog/mapping-peer-support-futures
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Mapping Peer Support Futures
PeerWorks represents the consumer voice by highlighting the achievements and challenges, potential and needs of our member organizations and the many individuals who use them.
Guest Post: A Psychiatric Survivor Comes to a Place of Understanding
Lisa Wallace on why she left psychiatric care and why she may return one day
How Does the Soteria House Heal?
The alternative treatment model of Soteria helps individuals suffering from schizophrenia without relying on medication or coercion.
Empire of Normality
'Groundbreaking ... [provides] a deep history of the invention of the 'normal' mind as one of the most oppressive tools of capitalism. To read it is to see t...
Project MUSE - On the Importance of Conceptual Contrasts: Madness, Reason, and Mad Pride
Mad Pride and Neurodiversity
Personal Perspective: Parallel movements of lived experience.
my major research paper, Dreaming Peer Support Futures, is now available online!
drawing on frameworks of #futurity, #utopia, and #dream(ing), as well as practices of #diffraction and #zine making methods, my research explores the question: “what could a lens of futurity offer the discipline of consumer/survivor #PeerSupport?”
https://hdl.handle.net/10315/42022
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Dreaming Peer Support Futures
Drawing on practices of diffractive reading supported by zine-making methods, throughout this major research paper I explore the question: “what could a lens of futurity offer the world of consumer/survivor peer support?”
In Chapter 1, I engage in a theoretical dialogue between the realm of peer support and notions of futurity to demonstrate the benefits and alignment of a futural (re)turn within the peer support sector, setting the stage for the rest of my analysis.
In Chapter 2, I explicate the ways – the whys and hows – that peer supporters are exploited by the psychiatric industrial complex under neoliberal rule, grounded in a historical approach that draws on the frameworks of confluence (Joseph, 2015) and neuroliberalism (Moussa, 2019) so that we may “learn from the past” (Butler, 2000, p. 166) in order to better anticipate the future.
In Chapter 3, I explore how the peer support sector is itself implicated in upholding systems of oppression (white supremacy, Western dominance, colonization, and colonialism) by troubling the “peer support origin story” and the current demographics of the field, as well as identifying what futures are currently in construction.
Lastly, in Chapter 4, I explore how we can draw on the lessons of funga and flora to both locate ourselves within the present and dream peer support futures beyond the limits of realism.
Knowledgebase - MindFreedom International (MFI)
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