EASE Lab Monthly Meeting

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This month’s presentations:

“What is mad studies and what can it bring to mental health research?”

Lucy Costa is deputy executive director of a non-profit service user rights-based organization in Toronto, Canada. She works as an advocate promoting the rights of mental health service users, as well as encouraging critical analysis about service user inclusion  practices in the mental health sector.  She is co-editor of Madness, Violence, and Power: A Critical Collection (University of Toronto Press)  as well as a special edition of the Journal of Ethics and Mental Health (2019). She is also a longtime meditator and member of the Board of Directors at Satipaññā Insight Meditation Toronto.

Lori Ross is Associate Professor in the Division of Social & Behavioural Health Sciences, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto. She is an interdisciplinary mixed methods researcher with a particular interest in research methodologies for social justice. Lori is particularly interested in drawing from Mad Studies and other critical approaches to study mental health among 2SLGBTQ+ and other communities impacted by intersecting structural oppressions. You can learn about her research at www.lgbtqhealth.ca.

“Pagbabalik ng Nawalay: Madness, Forgiveness, and the Affective Politics of Return”

Walter Rafael Villanueva is a PhD candidate in the Department of English and the New College Senior Doctoral Fellow in Buddhism, Psychology and Mental Health. He has managed major grant programs and research projects with the Department of Health & Society, the Centre for Global Disability Studies, and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health. His doctoral research explores Asian North American narratives of madness and, in particular, how Asian North American writers use storytelling as a counter or supplement to formal psychiatric diagnosis. He is currently working on an autoethnography that details his mother’s journey as a Filipina care worker in Canada who later develops vascular dementia and returns to the Philippines to make amends with her family, her relationship with whom had become fractured after she became disabled. Enmeshed within his mother’s story is his experience being her Mad primary caregiver.