In Our Own Words: finding language outside the DSM by @embracing.ambiguity
In Our Own Words: finding language outside the DSM by @embracing.ambiguity
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About the Event
DATE: Sat 5th July 2025
TIME: 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM UK TIME / 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM ET / 10:00 AM - 11:30 PM PT
A workshop on rewriting pathologizing narratives that have been forced upon us, and dreaming up dictionaries of Madness.
The language we use to describe our experiences is critical in shaping our understanding of ourselves and others. Psychiatric survivors and Mad/“mentally ill” folks are so often left without words to communicate our experiences outside of the pathologizing/psychiatric paradigm. The first portion of this workshop will be dedicated to exploring how limiting language is used as a tool of oppression, and why it’s critical to reclaim linguistic agency. The second portion of the workshop will feature a guided and communal activity encouraging attendees to rewrite their own stories in language that feels most affirming and accurate to themselves.
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About the Facilitator
Sarah “S” Broas (they/them) is a white, non-binary, Disabled, and proudly Mad psychiatric survivor. They are an organizer, artist, care-worker, and writer currently occupying unceded Massachusett and Pawtucket lands. Most of their time is spent imagining and actualizing alternatives to carceral psychiatric systems of oppression.
Instagram: Embracing.Ambiguity
Access Info
- Camera Optional
- Mic Optional
- Chat Use Available & Optional
- Active Participation Optional
- Writing Optional
- Independent Activity Included
- Group Activity Included
- Break Included
- Slides (screen-sharing on the day)
- Additional Resources (sent after)
Access Notes from the Facilitator:
There will be a guided independent activity in the second portion, which will involve language/writing. Participation in this activity is optional, and observation is welcome, but please be aware that this is a decent chunk of the workshop. Participants will have the opportunity to share their work at the end, but is never required!
Slides can be made available 24hrs in advance upon specific request. Please contact NEUROMANCERS with any (additional) access requests.
About NEUROMANCERS
NEUROMANCERS is a peer-led organisation providing autonomous, abolitionist, and accessible mental health care for and by the neurodivergent+ community.
To NEUROMANCE means to 'fall in love with divergence'.
The mainstream healthcare system fails our community by labelling neurodivergent+ people 'defective' and 'disordered'.
NEUROMANCERS seek to provide an alternative. Instead, we fall in love with divergence. Our traits are neither 'curses' nor 'superpowers'. We are simply people surviving a society that oppresses and excludes us in the best ways we know how.
NEUROMANCERS is here to support you - at whatever stage of the journey you are on - by providing autonomous, abolitionist, and accessible mental health care, by us and for us.