Session Information:

Presenter: Victoria Papa
Moderator: Arlene Theodore
Level of Interaction: Medium (some discussion, optional participation)
Preferred Maximum Audience Size: 20

Description:

“Care is an exchange—the words 'caretaker' and 'caregiver' mean the same thing. We must give it as we take it,” writes genre-defying artist and disability justice activist, Johanna Hedva. Creating channels for care in our institutions is both a dream and necessity—at once, a method and means for forms of belonging otherwise unimaginable and a must for our survival. Through an experiential presentation of Hedva’s guest-curated module for CARE SYLLABUS, this session explores the concept of “caremaking” as a counterforce to the binary logics of ableism. Together in dialogue, we will investigate how our understandings of care connect to our perceptions of bodily and psychic vulnerability.

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Links to Materials:

CARE SYLLABUS
Johanna Hedva's "Care in End Times" Module for CARE SYLLABUS
Johanna Hedva's essay, "Sick Woman Theory"
Interview with Hedva for CARE SYLLABUS

Participant Learning Outcomes:

Participants in this session will:

Critically reflect on and explain their own social identity in relation to ability
Demonstrate the ability to empathize across and within social identity boundaries
Participants employ skills for effective dialogue, including deep listening, suspending judgments, identifying assumptions, voicing, reflection and inquiry, and respect

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