"Crazy / Sick / Queer: Navigating Interpersonal Relationships" - Workshop with Shana Bulhan Haydock


 Center for Medical Humanities     Mar 4 2021 | 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Zoom

Shana Bulhan Haydock pixie haircut, cat eye eyeglasse, black v-neck top

Thursday, March 4
Time: 4-5 PM Pacific

Have you ever felt like the ‘crazy’ person in a relationship? Too ‘needy,’ volatile, codependent, or just ‘different’? What comes to mind when you think of a ‘healthy relationship’?

In this workshop, we will investigate ways that crazy, disabled, sick, and queer people are left out of mainstream ideas of healthy interpersonal relationships. In a world full of precarious social and economic circumstances, where needing ‘too much’ care is seen as a flaw, it can be really exhausting just trying to find and build community with each other. Yet we need each other in order to survive. How can we rethink ‘healthy’ relationships through a disability and care-centered lens?

Shana Bulhan studies and teaches at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. They are a candidate in the MFA Program for Poets & Writers, and they are also pursuing a Graduate Certificate in Feminist Studies. Previously, they studied Critical Social Thought at Mount Holyoke College. Shana grew up mostly in India, but they have been living in Western Massachusetts for more than a decade now. They recently won an Academy of American Poets Prize selected by Bianca Stone. Their creative work has appeared in Meridians, smoke + mold, the Asian-American Literary Review, and other publications. For more information, please visit their website, www.cruxate.com.

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