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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
#COVID #DisabilityStudies #MadStudies #Madodon #FuturesStudies #dream
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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 supportA summary of our discussion is available on the PeerWorks blog:
https://www.peerworks.ca/resources/blog/mapping-peer-support-futures
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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?”
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In 2022, I met with a group of peer support workers in Ontario to explore their everyday work and the tensions they felt in relation to #PeerSupport #Institutionalization.
This is a set of 3 zines which summarize the results of my MSW #research in relation to documentation, devaluing, and values work -- including colour #comics illustrating our conversations together.
Available for purchase ($8/ea or $20 for all 3):
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My #zine "Community and / as Magic" attempts to piece together critical #DisabilityStudies, #MadStudies, #QueerTheory, #CommunityWork, #SocialJustice work, #mythology, #magic & #witchcraft through a radical inter/extra-disciplinary approach to understanding #community. It also includes a poem I wrote about building alternative futures!
Available for purchase here ($3 + shipping):
https://ko-fi.com/s/05bb1aa78f