reading Rachel Gorman's (2017) "Quagmires of Affect: Madness, Labor, Whiteness, and Ideological Disavowal"

https://doi.org/10.1353/aq.2017.0025

thinking about mental health "recovery" & wondering: recovering *what*?

is "recovery" about recovering:
a) lost "function" (clinical model)
b) lost self-determination (personal/peer model)
c) lost futures (peer futurity model), and/or*
d) lost white privilege?

* "and" bc function, self-determination, and futurity are white-coded

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Mad People of Colour: A Manifesto

"We write this manifesto because we know that racism, sexism and oppression circulating in the [psychiatric] system are also circulating in the mad movement."

https://asylummagazine.org/2013/12/mad-people-of-color-a-manifesto-by-rachel-gorman-annu-saini-louise-tam-onyinyechukwu-udegbe-onar-usar/

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I am thinking (and looking for readings to explore more) about "mental health" as a bio-colonial construct

everything is framed as a mental health problem or intervention -- that construct is enforced on other people & cultures as both process and effect of colonialism, in a way that leigitimizes Western biopsychiatric jurisdiction over broader social/cultural/material/etc phenomena.

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I handed out over 200 (!!!) zines throughout the PeerWorks conference, summarizing some of my research on peer support!

(I spent the past week doing nothing but printing, folding, & cutting paper -- my hands hurt so badly, and I definitely don't reccommend making so many zines in such a short time -- but it was worth it!)

I'm going to take the next few days to rest and recover, then it's onto the next project!

#PeerWorks #PeerSupport #MadStudies #Madodon #Disability #DIsabilityStudies #zine

On Tuesday and Wednesday, I attended the annual PeerWorks conference and delivered a presentation called "Work as Recovery: Warning Signs of Dystopian Futures?"

This presentation explored one potential reason why peer support is undervalued & underpaid, drawing discursive connections between peer support, sheltered workshops, and work therapy in 19th-20th century insane asylums.

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Over the past few days I've been trying to transform quotes from my research on peer support institutionalization into little comic strips -- here's a sneak peak, featuring one of my favourite discussions of ours!

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(my thesis & an 11-page plain language summary are available here: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/28026)

@cavar Me, but too tired #Madodon #Queer #ActuallyAutistic