Mad Scholars

What does—what could—it look like to claim a Mad identity openly as a researcher, an educator, and a member of a broader intellectual community? Melanie Jones and Shayda Kafai, co-editors of Mad Scholars: Reclaiming and Reimagining the Neurodiverse Academy, are facilitating a discussion space and writing workshop to imagine neurodivergent, neuroqueer, disabled, disordered, and Crip worldmaking within academia and beyond. Using prompts, free-writes, and self-exploration, we will explore our book’s journey, chart new paths for liberatory education, and create expansive Mad manifestos for collective access and care.

Mad Scholars imagines concrete paths to Mad education and liberation. In this collection, twenty-five voices ask what we can imagine if Mad Scholars were treasured as resources, recognized as assets, and embraced as change-makers. Now we invite you to join the conversation. The webinar will include optional break-out rooms and Q&A time with the facilitators. Please bring an eager mind, an open heart, and something to write on/with.