MADZine Research invites submissions from Mad* and neurodivergent students that offer creative and critical alternatives to typical approaches to ‘student mental health’ and neurodiversity.
It will be organized on the following theme: Mad student* organizing, community building, and associated recommendations for learning and teaching in postsecondary/higher education.
All current or former students (1) from colleges and universities who (2) identify with madness, addiction, and/or neurodivergence are welcome to submit.
The zine seeks to:
- Gather examples that inspire, encourage, and support Mad student organizing.
- Provoke discussion and exchange on the following questions:
- What are Mad students doing to advocate, resist oppression, support each other, and/or to build community in colleges and universities?
- What has Mad student organizing, advocacy, or community meant to those involved?
- How are Mad students connecting to broader Mad/peer-based movements, communities, and histories beyond “campus”?
- How are Mad students influencing what is taught about mental health, addiction, and neurodiversity and the ways colleges and universities address students’ mental health needs?
- Emerging from these creative alternatives, what inspirations, provocations and recommendations do Mad students have for postsecondary/higher education learning and teaching, professors, staff, and fellow students?
- What do Mad students want the future of learning and teaching to look like? What needs to change?
- Identify and link Mad student initiatives in different local, regional, national, and temporal contexts.
- Create an output that can connect and enrich debates and initiatives in the area of 'student mental health’ and provide a jumping off point for future initiatives.
Learn more about submission guidelines and deadlines here.
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