ICDS Scholars Week Keynote – Stefanie Lyn Kaufman-Mthimkhulu
May 13, 2024
5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Please join us Monday, May 13th at 5pm for the 2024 Institute for Critical Disability Studies Scholars Week Keynote featuring Stefanie Lyn Kaufman-Mthimkhulu.
Title: “No Incompletes In ‘Real Life’”: Surviving and Reimagining Ableist Institutions in Mad Times (While Centering the Medicine of Disability Justice)
This will be a hybrid event. You may attend in person at Western Washington University’s Bellingham campus in Miller Hall 156, where there will be light refreshments available. You may also attend remotely through Zoom. The Zoom presentation will be recorded.
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About our Keynote Guest:
Stefanie Lyn Kaufman Mthimkhulu (they/she) is the Founder and Director of Project LETS. As a multiply Disabled, Mad, psychiatric survivor, they are deeply committed to interrupting patterns of historical and present-day ableism that impact Disabled people and those perceived as/labeled with mental illness in medical, psychiatric, and academic systems. They have over a decade of experience as an anti-carceral crisis responder, care worker, perinatal doula, death worker, and peer supporter; and have supported multiply marginalized folks in a wide range of psychiatric and medical crises/transitions in community-based settings. They are rooted in historical and political lineages of Disability Justice and Mad Liberation; and are committed to creating options for folks to access self-determined care without police or cages of any form. Stefanie also supports care workers in building access-centered, trauma responsive practices that facilitate whole bodymindspirit healing. They are the author of We Don’t Need Cops in Social Work and the Editor of Abolition Must Include Psychiatry.
ICDS Scholars Keynote poster Stefanie 2024-v2__poster-on-11×17.pdf