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In 5 mins we start a session for our #QACP cohort on Queer Crip Time with advisory board member @TheHoleyBibli in convo with @mindonthemargin building on her talk as guest faculty for QACP - we’re sharing some snippets here. #criptime #queer #queeringmentalhealth #mentalhealth
MHI advisory board member @TheHoleyBibli is #mentalhealth activist, user-survivor. She’s organised queer mental health grps & co-hosted workshops on MH in theatre. HeR day job is in rare book restoration &has studied Gender & is inspired by a feminist disability rights approach
Why do we need to discuss time? & critically examine concept of time? Asks @mindonthemargin & how does it relate to #mentalhealth - @TheHoleyBibli talks of script around time - a heteronormative script. Love is for young persons (reproductive age). Time sanctions things as valid
Timelines are scripts & those who fall out of these scripts are excluded- queer calendars are different. Or in mental health- recovery hastimeline related script. Power structures are validated by time #queertime #criptime #Neurodiversity #qacp #qacpcohort #queeringmentalhealth
. @TheHoleyBibli time is seen as the absolutely truth, linear & unidimensional so we have trouble processing plural pasts - if we see the past as building up to the future we cannot engage with plural lived experiences -in #mentalhealth this may affect trans narratives #Qacp
. @TheHoleyBibli -while I was seeing myself reflected in queer spaces & temporalities-Time isn’t examined critically she says. What is anxious time? What is dissociative time?We don’t talk about this. What is depressive time when it’s thick & viscous. It’s invisible in #queertime
medical individual model locates disability in the person, we know pathologisation is problematic & a tool of control vs social model- situating disability outside the person as a structural issue- so alter the structures but, says @TheHoleyBibli - both look at curative futures!
Both of these model looked at curative futures for disability where disability is "fixed" says @TheHoleyBibli if I acknowledge that I want medical support I can be written off as an activist because I choose to take medication! #QACP #queeringmentalhealth #criptime #queertime
. @TheHoleyBibli shares a political relational model of disability that is an identity space- disability exists in relation to other identities & power structures. She sees the idea of queer futures leading to disability futures. ablebody/mind is a structure like heteronormativity
Crip here means crippled - used like queer. We want discomfort that comes with queer/Crip @TheHoleyBibli #criptime diagnosis & prognosis are coded with time implications. Coz I wasn’t diagnosed- my past was neurotypical-so im waiting for the curative future or neurotypical past
So let’s think about what it means to cripple time-to fracture it- I don’t know how to think 5 yrs ahead. I don’t know what it’ll look like if 2 of those are with depression. How do I validate those 2 years I will have no memory of? - @TheHoleyBibli #criptime #QACP #mentalhealth
Don’t make the mistake of thinking that crip time is more time - for many who live with #disability its less time! Shorter lifespans, being seen as lives not lived or futures wasted. The only succesful future seen for cystic fibrosis/neurodiversity is cured future @TheHoleyBibli
There are no futures written or envisioned for people like us. And #crip moments are seen as failed moments - @TheHoleyBibli - so queer time & movements - when you have no future where’s the chance of crip movements? #queercriptime
Think how many words we use that are time words- can we talk without time words? Diagnosis, prognosis, remission, recovery, developmental delays are all time words - @TheHoleyBibli #qacp #queeringmentalhealth #crip #DisabilityRights
How do we rework ableist, violent, oppressive notions of time in therapy, in mental health, recognise Social norms of time asks @mindonthemargin - @TheHoleyBibli adds remember function and productivity are all time words. #queeringmentalhealth #qacp #mentalhealth #queercrip
On the days you don’t get out of bed, when you’re not productive like ma & dad want you to be - this time needs to be validated & engaged with. Queer time & crip time are not separate or overlapping- you move through queer time to get to crip time says @TheHoleyBibli #qacp
