^^ 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.

(above reference is to this video presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8ub-pHRvTM&t=1s)

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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

“A Place for Orchids”
by Jessie Manisto
Founder of Third Factor Magazine

(Read by Johanna)

https://www.thirdfactor.org/orchid-dandelion/

https://youtu.be/px6iLZOxT30 https://open.spotify.com/track/2y88MTfagg2R9zZ4kEAkQP?si=4c2cfd75e4314653

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Jewels
Barbara’s writes: This song grew out of a conversation I had with a voice coaching client many years ago. The person was struggling to heal after a traumatic brain injury and thought singing would help her brain recover. It did. Meanwhile, when she was having a particularly hard day, I heard myself saying these words to her: "Every time I go into the darkness, I return with fistfuls of jewels." It didn't feel like me talking, but some larger and wiser being. I filed the line away in my memory. Then in a hot tub under the stars on the south shore of Lake Superior, it found a melody and a second line: "Midnight velvet wraps all around me; stars glitter brilliant above." The third line arose in a community song circle. This song baby has traveled far and wide and is a winter solstice favorite in many communities. 

**Every time I go into the darkness, I return with fistfuls of jewels

Midnight velvet wraps all around me; stars glitter brilliant above

Dreaming darkness, dreaming light**


https://youtu.be/J-eAGY1cmNI

In desperation
We found freedom
In freedom
we found love
In love
We found devotion
In devotion
Spirit found us