The Mad Scholars Anthology Project is finally happening.
Mad Scholars: Reclaiming and Reimagining the Nuerodiverse Academy
Edited by Melanie Jones and Shayda Kafai, this book contains chapters by numerous Mad Academics, including myself.
Published by Syracuse University Press
"...one of the most timely, conscious, and robust contributions to the field of Mad Studies that I have yet to encounter. The world needs this book, and it needs it right now." - Syracuse Reviewer
My chapter is called "The Subject is Mad" and flits about through various vignettes of madness from Academia to childhood, and explores how madness informs practices of reading, writing, speaking, and percieving.
Of my own chapter, a reviewer wrote, "It’s beautiful; it also gestures toward a variety of Mad epistemological interventions while leaning heavily into Mad stylistics. I appreciate the way they emphasize Mad community and ancestry."
Contributors:
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SHAWNA GUENTHER
REBECCA ELI LONG
JESS L. WILCOX COWING
SYDNEY F. LEWIS
LEAH LAKSHMI PIEPZNA-SAMARSINHA
MELANIE JONES
CACHÉ OWENS
SARAH CAVAR
RUA WILLIAMS
KELAN KONING
LIZ MILLER
SAMUEL Z. SHELTON
PAU ABUSTAN
A-M MCMANAMAN
JESSE RICE-EVANS AND ANDRÉA STELLA
SARAH SMITH AND GRACE WEDLAKE
SARAH ARVEY TOV
KIMBERLY FERNANDES
DIANE R. WIENER
HOLLY PEARSON
SHAYDA KAFAI
@FractalEcho wow - the above future publication about neurodiversity in academia will be of interest to the @actuallyautistic and also the @actuallyadhd and other ND folks, I believe!
Essentially, their tiny bug brains think the light is the sunset, so they keep turning to keep the "sun" at the same angle so they can go "straight." No matter how far they fly, they don't make any progress. They are trapped in this little hell we made just for them, not understanding why they can't get to where they are going.