you’re welcome!! and thanks so much let’s discuss the ideas more together some time😁🤩
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you’re welcome!! and thanks so much let’s discuss the ideas more together some time😁🤩
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the first slide of a powerpoint, it reads: ‘Mad(dening) Neurodiversity? Tasha Downs (she/her) Wednesday 4th March ‘Neurodiversity is More Than…’ Symposium
feeling so grateful for taking part today in the ‘neurodiversity is more than…’ symposium 😁 lots to process from the other speakers’ super important and timely presentations!! many thanks to @ombretarragnat.bsky.social, Abs Ashley and the @ndhumanities.bsky.social network for organising
https://drive.google.com/file/d/190Hm84iUwx8jfogTnc6pyMVvMHMsLJ4P/view
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https://drive.google.com/file/d/190Hm84iUwx8jfogTnc6pyMVvMHMsLJ4P/view
Looking forward to the 'Neurodiversity is more than...' symposium on the 4th March! I will be speaking from 11:30-12:15 on the topic 'Mad(dening) Neurodiversity?'. Still tickets available 😁 you can sign up and find the full programme at the link below ~
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/neurodiver...
Still seeking participants for my PhD research on neuroqueer youth digital resistance practices! (ERGO: 103967)
Know someone who’d be interested?
All info is at linktr.ee/nqresearch.s..., or email me with any questions at ✉️nqresearch@soton.ac.uk
Scholars, artists, and activists - send 350-word submissions by 15 January on Mad Pasts / Mad Presence and how to use the efforts of our elders to reshape and rethink how we “deal” with and conceptualize madness. For queries, submissions, or to volunteer – use email: victoria.madstudies@gmail.com
A christmas dinner spread
My sixth Christmas as a vegan!! 😁
"I am treated as if the problem lies exclusively in how I perceive reality, rather than in the genuine experiences of existing within a world that fundamentally isn’t designed for autistic people."
NSUN member Lou on CBT in an ableist world.
www.nsun.org.uk/you-cannot-c...
An exciting new issue for folx interested in Mad methods:
dsq-sds.org/issue/359/in...
Gathering proposals for the 'Figments: Madness, Health and Creativity' Conference (University of Glasgow, 15 June 2026). Deadline: 12 December.
More information and submission form here: www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...
#cfp #medhums #healthhums #madstudies #histmed #histpsych
Hey @mind.org.uk and @autisticsociety.bsky.social - why are you quoted in here as welcoming this? How is this likely to help people with mental health issues, autism or ADHD when it’s clearly about saving money and cutting off people’s benefits?
www.bbc.com/news/article...
visual notes from my social media absence featuring (1) anti-fascist protesting, (2) the conclusion of the lived experience academy research project, (3) the Centre for Mad Culture UK launch and (4) a cool ceiling I saw at the Neurodiversity and the Church event at Westminster College.
I'm one of the invited speakers for this symposium, can't wait! 😁 Sign up here...
Excited to be contributing some thoughts about how a Maddened Neurodivergent literary analysis looks in practice to this forthcoming issue 😁 look out for it next year!
Some photos from the Japanese early modern palaeography summer school at Cambridge!! So cool to get more to terms with using these kinds of materials
Hi all, I will be offering some limited translation support for the event 'Disability and Critical Psychology in Japan' taking place tomorrow (9am-11am UK Time), hosted by The Critical Psychology Colloquium of the Japanese Psychological Association and Afro-Asian Critical Psychology 🙂
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Happy Mad Pride day 💜🩷 had fun at Mad Insight’s picnic yesterday in Edinburgh. Was great to exist in community, celebrate mad culture and discuss resistance to psychiatry 💪
ChatGPT Weakens Your Ability to Think, MIT Study Finds
by Peter Simons
“Interaction with AI systems may lead to diminished prospects for independent problem-solving and critical thinking,” the researchers write.
buff.ly/XtA6yfu
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Graduated today with a distinction in Cert Public Involvement and Co-production!! Had a great day celebrating in the sun, huge congratulations to my entire cohort ☀️ #NUGrad @northumbriauni.bsky.social
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A card reading ‘The National Learning Disabilities & Autism Awards 2025 Log my care Natasha Downs NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY’
Had a great time last night at the National LD and Autism awards representing the Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training at @northumbriauni.bsky.social as one of the autistic lived-experience co-trainers 😁 we didn’t win but is amazing to be nominated for the transformational training partnership award ✨
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Off to the national learning disability and autism awards tonight at the Birmingham ICC representing The Oliver McGowan training programme at @northumbriauni.bsky.social 😁😁
Important to remember this
From @ritb.bsky.social
On Day 6 of the Critical Neurodiversity Studies takeover @tasha-tasha.bsky.social calls for literary scholars within Mad Studies & Neurodiversity Studies to engage with one another, exploring the possibilities of and justifications for a ‘Mad[]Neurodiverse’ literary analysis.
tinyurl.com/mr3dr8kc
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A person presents a slide reading 'Mad Literary Approaches: Anti-sanist readings reinscribe madness where 'mental illness' was previously read, empowering mad knowledges with validity and epistemic value, and believ[ing] the mad version of events' (Taggart 2024, 40'
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Two people smile for a selfie in front of a board which reads 'The Neurodivergent Humanities Network'
okay first post! Had a great time sharing my perspective on Mad and Neurodiversity literary approaches at the the Critical Neurodiversity Studies conference :) so grateful to be made a fellow and to meet other neurodivergent scholar-activists ~
@durhamimh.bsky.social @ndhumanities.bsky.social
