Dying To Learn: A Mad Students Panel
7:00 PM— 9:00 PM
Presented alongside Rebecca Sweets’ immersive exhibit (Love My Dysfunctions) on now in the CSV gallery, Margin of Eras Gallery presents a conversation between mad and neurodivergent students + former students on anti-sanism and anti-ableism in academia ranging from topics such as the institutionalization of sanism and ableism in academic policy and culture, internalized ableism and sanism in the academy, and imagining what a mad-positive university might look like.
CSV Workshop Space
Margin of Eras Gallery
CSV
This event is part of:
A conversation between mad and neurodivergent students + former students on anti-sanism and anti-ableism in academia ranging from topics such as the institutionalization of sanism and ableism in academic policy and culture, internalized ableism and sanism in the academy, and imagining what a mad-positive university might look like.
Panelists include:
- Rebecca Sweets
- Nadia Kanani
- Twoey Gray
- K Zimmer
- Max Ferguson
The LOVE MY DYSFUNCTIONS art exhibition reflects a common practice of institutions individualizing mental health to avert accountability. As academic institutions deny their role in perpetuating high rates of student distress; flawed “solutions” such as anti-stigma campaigns, self-care initiatives, resiliency models, and other individualized notions become a standard and passive response. The oversaturation of band-aid initiatives serves to decenter the university as a systemic contributor to issues faced by Mad students and continue on a legacy of inaction.