Forwarded from Johanna O’Tea
Forwarded from Johanna O’Tea
Here's some Love from nonviolence creatrix Rivera Sun
Dancing In the Earthquake Of These Times
Which one is speaking most deeply to you today? https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/ten-love-letters-to-the-earth/
Emergence Magazine
Ten Love Letters to the Earth – Thich Nhat Hanh
In this series of tender meditations, “Ten Love Letters to the Earth,” Vietnamese Buddhist monk and Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh invites us to be truly present with the Earth, our Mother.
^^ 47th annual Scholar and Feminist Un-Conference
Living in Madness: Decolonization, Creation, Healing
February – April 2022
Online
The 47th annual Scholar and Feminist conference organized by BCRW is entitled "Living in Madness: Decolonization, Creation, Healing." The conference will be virtual and sessions will take place over a period of weeks from February to April, 2022.
This conference will explore experiences of madness, disability, survival, and refusal through the frameworks of mad studies, disability justice, and artistic practice. Scholars, artists, activists, and practitioners will interrogate structures of medicalization and institutionalization, engaging in dialogue about the entanglement of psy-disciplines with colonial and nation-building projects predicated on scientific racism, misogyny, xenophobia, transphobia, and eugenics. We ask how structural violence has both created maddening conditions and established the terms by which survivors are pathologized, criminalized and alienated.
Among the questions we want to explore are those posed by conference panelist Camille Robcis in her intellectual history of institutional psychotherapy, Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France (2021), specifically how movements that have attempted to decolonize and otherwise contest the practices of psychiatry can provide us with frameworks to understand our own positioning vis-à-vis “the permanence of extreme-right movements, fascisms real and ‘in our heads,’ still spreading and gaining force throughout the world.” We take inspiration as well from our Fall 2021 event with La Marr Jurelle Bruce, whose critical discourse about madness encompasses unruliness, radical creativity, and rage in the face of systems that have used the concept of Blackness as disability to foreclose the possibilities of Black freedom. Our conference dialogues will also engage calls for intersectional approaches to abolition and decarceralization address disability and madness, and the imperative to center the experiences of indigenous and Palestinian people resisting psychic oppression while living under occupation.
The impetus for this conference comes as we collectively persist while a virus has exposed structural violence and inadequacy of profit-based systems of care, and we are also confronted with increased ecological fragility. We are now understandably asking questions about the shakiness of human experience, and how to reckon with what might be called “unlivable states of mind.” 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.
Gathering together, we explore potential modes of healing. Like seeds we plant without knowing which will root, we pursue collectivity and creativity in order to keep living.
Living in Madness: Decolonization, Creation, Healing
February – April 2022
Online
The 47th annual Scholar and Feminist conference organized by BCRW is entitled "Living in Madness: Decolonization, Creation, Healing." The conference will be virtual and sessions will take place over a period of weeks from February to April, 2022.
This conference will explore experiences of madness, disability, survival, and refusal through the frameworks of mad studies, disability justice, and artistic practice. Scholars, artists, activists, and practitioners will interrogate structures of medicalization and institutionalization, engaging in dialogue about the entanglement of psy-disciplines with colonial and nation-building projects predicated on scientific racism, misogyny, xenophobia, transphobia, and eugenics. We ask how structural violence has both created maddening conditions and established the terms by which survivors are pathologized, criminalized and alienated.
Among the questions we want to explore are those posed by conference panelist Camille Robcis in her intellectual history of institutional psychotherapy, Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France (2021), specifically how movements that have attempted to decolonize and otherwise contest the practices of psychiatry can provide us with frameworks to understand our own positioning vis-à-vis “the permanence of extreme-right movements, fascisms real and ‘in our heads,’ still spreading and gaining force throughout the world.” We take inspiration as well from our Fall 2021 event with La Marr Jurelle Bruce, whose critical discourse about madness encompasses unruliness, radical creativity, and rage in the face of systems that have used the concept of Blackness as disability to foreclose the possibilities of Black freedom. Our conference dialogues will also engage calls for intersectional approaches to abolition and decarceralization address disability and madness, and the imperative to center the experiences of indigenous and Palestinian people resisting psychic oppression while living under occupation.
The impetus for this conference comes as we collectively persist while a virus has exposed structural violence and inadequacy of profit-based systems of care, and we are also confronted with increased ecological fragility. We are now understandably asking questions about the shakiness of human experience, and how to reckon with what might be called “unlivable states of mind.” 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.
Gathering together, we explore potential modes of healing. Like seeds we plant without knowing which will root, we pursue collectivity and creativity in order to keep living.
(above reference is to this video presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8ub-pHRvTM&t=1s)
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How to Go Mad Without Losing Your Mind: Madness and Black Radical Creativity
La Marr Jurelle Bruce in conversation with Farah Jasmine Griffin
“Hold tight. The way to go mad without losing your mind is sometimes unruly.” So begins La Marr Jurelle Bruce’s urgent provocation and poignant meditation on madness in black radical art, How…
“Hold tight. The way to go mad without losing your mind is sometimes unruly.” So begins La Marr Jurelle Bruce’s urgent provocation and poignant meditation on madness in black radical art, How…
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Many wise, brave, and amazing members of our local communities are going without safe food access on a regular basis, with no way of addressing this because of co-optation and disablement in their environments.
@IntuitiveKitchen is organizing funds and related resourcing to ensure members of our communities can access safe food consistently and continue to bring their profound gifts in service to themselves and others in this time of especial need and opportunity.
When we make sure severely disabled and severely affected community members are included in ongoing daily activities to build safe, inclusive community resourcing, we have the benefit of all our collective amazing talents, skill sets, knowledge, expertise, lived experience, and living wisdom.
Thank you for supporting our efforts to build strong shared centers of true nourishment together.
Donate to https://paypal.me/IntuitiveInvisibles, visit https://Intuitive.community/support, or reach out to https://t.me/MaxMorris to help arrange supportive resourcing.
Gratitude. Blessings.
https://t.me/IntuitiveKitchen/1817, https://t.me/IntuitivePublicRadio/9423
@IntuitiveKitchen is organizing funds and related resourcing to ensure members of our communities can access safe food consistently and continue to bring their profound gifts in service to themselves and others in this time of especial need and opportunity.
When we make sure severely disabled and severely affected community members are included in ongoing daily activities to build safe, inclusive community resourcing, we have the benefit of all our collective amazing talents, skill sets, knowledge, expertise, lived experience, and living wisdom.
Thank you for supporting our efforts to build strong shared centers of true nourishment together.
Donate to https://paypal.me/IntuitiveInvisibles, visit https://Intuitive.community/support, or reach out to https://t.me/MaxMorris to help arrange supportive resourcing.
Gratitude. Blessings.
https://t.me/IntuitiveKitchen/1817, https://t.me/IntuitivePublicRadio/9423
Go Down Deep
By Laurence Cole
Lyrics
Part One:
You want to get up to the joy, you got to go down deep, so go down, go down, go down.
Part Two:
The illness seeks the medicine, so go-wo-down.
Part Three:
We can do this! We will rise!
http://www.laurencecole.com/album/go-down-deep/
By Laurence Cole
Lyrics
Part One:
You want to get up to the joy, you got to go down deep, so go down, go down, go down.
Part Two:
The illness seeks the medicine, so go-wo-down.
Part Three:
We can do this! We will rise!
http://www.laurencecole.com/album/go-down-deep/
In the empire of the senses
You're the queen of all you survey
All the cities all the nation
Everything that falls your way
There is a deeper world than this
That you don't understand
There is a deeper world that this
Tugging at your hand
Every ripple on the ocean
Every leaf on every tree
Every sand dune in the desert
Every power we never see
There is a deeper wave than this
Swelling in the world
There is a deeper wave than this
Listen to me girl
Feel it rising in the cities
Feel it sweeping over land
Over borders, over frontiers
Nothing will its power withstand
There is no deeper wave than this
Rising in the world
There is no deeper wave than this
Listen to me girl
All the bloodshed all the anger
All the weapons all the greed
All the armies all the missiles
All the symbols of that fear
There is a deeper wave than this
Rising in the world
There is a deeper wave than this
Listen to me girl
At the still point of destruction
At the center of the fury
All the angels all the devils
All around us can't you see
There is a deeper wave than this
Rising in the land
There is a deeper wave than this
Nothing will withstand
I say love is the seventh wave
Sung by accapellaboratory April 2015
https://youtu.be/icvZRERrIuI
You're the queen of all you survey
All the cities all the nation
Everything that falls your way
There is a deeper world than this
That you don't understand
There is a deeper world that this
Tugging at your hand
Every ripple on the ocean
Every leaf on every tree
Every sand dune in the desert
Every power we never see
There is a deeper wave than this
Swelling in the world
There is a deeper wave than this
Listen to me girl
Feel it rising in the cities
Feel it sweeping over land
Over borders, over frontiers
Nothing will its power withstand
There is no deeper wave than this
Rising in the world
There is no deeper wave than this
Listen to me girl
All the bloodshed all the anger
All the weapons all the greed
All the armies all the missiles
All the symbols of that fear
There is a deeper wave than this
Rising in the world
There is a deeper wave than this
Listen to me girl
At the still point of destruction
At the center of the fury
All the angels all the devils
All around us can't you see
There is a deeper wave than this
Rising in the land
There is a deeper wave than this
Nothing will withstand
I say love is the seventh wave
Sung by accapellaboratory April 2015
https://youtu.be/icvZRERrIuI
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acapellaboratory April/15 Love is the 7th Wave
Forwarded from 🔊 Psyvisor • Real Life Survival Of Psychiatric Astonishment • True Redemptions & Kindness In Modern Science • Psy Sci • IPR ••
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James Barnes
Mental distress is not a symptom of an illness; it is an interpersonal communication. Not only does the medical model get this wrong, its wrongness means its deaf to much of the communication.