The Mad and Crip Theology Podcast

This month we talk with Anonymous about their piece, "On Care and Control." Read the full piece: https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/cjtmhd/article/view/40814

We talk about interdependency, care as control, care as mutual, and the desire to be mediocre and celebrate mediocracy!  Have a listen/watch!

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Join Amy and Miriam in their conversation with Anita Belliveau and Conni Cartlidge as they reflect on caring for their parents and all the emotions/relationship dynamics of that time of life.

We encourage you to read, reflect on, and discuss both of their pieces in the Spring 2023 issue:  https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/cjtmhd

Let us know what conversations / ideas this episode stirs up for you!

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Join us for an episode featuring Emily Duggan and Keith Reynolds, clergy in The United Church of Canada.  They reflect with Amy and Miriam on experiences of caregiving and care-receiving: Emily with her daughter and Keith with a member of Avondale United in Stratford. Watch on Youtube with subtitles here: https://youtu.be/t-aKY4Kacyo

We encourage you to read, reflect on, and discuss both of their pieces in the Spring 2023...

On this episode, we speak with Susan Fish, Laszlo and Elly Sarkany about their experiences with caregiving for their parents.  Their pieces and our conversation weaves together stories filled with grief, joy, connection and love.  We encourage you to read their stories and listen to their reflections.

Susan's piece on reading Watership Down to her father is here: https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/cjtmhd/articl...

On this episode, Amy and Miriam speak with Elena Goldak on her article: They Shall Surely Be Put to Death: A Critical Disability Reading of Queer Conversion Violence.  

Elena writes,
"This essay is an inquiry into the relationship between queer conversion violence (QCV) and forms of suicidal violence. I am particularly interested in the ways that queer people come to participate in projects of debility which targe...

On this episode, Amy and Miriam speak with Daryna Skybina about her paper published in the Fall 2022 issue of The Canadian Journal of Theology, Mental Health, and Disability: A Trauma-Informed Approach to Discussing Karma in Buddhism. You can find more about Daryna's psychotherapy practice at www.darynaskybina.com or via Instagram @darynaskybinapsychotherapy Read the full paper here: https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/c...

In this episode, we talk with Heather Morgan about purity culture and the harm being done to female-presenting autistic people (and others) because of this movement. Heather shares some of her diaries from growing up and talks about the teachings she learned about purity when she was young. She then explains how she feels receiving an autism diagnosis would have helped her make better sense of purity culture. We then talk about hel...

In this episode, we talk with Shauna Kubossek about her newly published paper "'So That She May Be Made Well' Themes of Salvation, Trust, and Healing in Mark 5:21–43."  We discuss atonement theories, healing and cure, voice hearing, and how we can have better theologies around those in our faith communities who are "not liberated, whose bleeding has not stopped, and whose bodies are not resurrected." <...

On this episode of the podcast we talk with Dr. Naomi Lawson-Jacobs about their creative piece "A Story Like Mine" from the Fall issue of the Canadian Journal of Theology, Mental Health and Disability which focuses on Mad and Crip Sexuality. Naomi shares their experience of growing up in churches where they heard no stories of queer, disabled people and how disabled people’s sexuality is silenced, especially queer disable...

In this episode, we talk with two of our contributors to the Spring issue of the Canadian Journal of Theology, Mental Health, and Disability about their pieces that focus on women, depression, and faith.   

Eliana talks about her lived experience of postpartum depression and how she navigated this journey while being a part of the Christian Korean and Canadian-Korean faith communities and how lament became a part of how sh...

On this episode we talk with Beth Anne Fisher and Steve Bedard about their contributions to the Spring issue of the Canadian Journal of Theology, Mental Health and Disability. 

Beth Anne reflects on her lived experience of taking anti-depressants and the connection between her diagnosis of PTSD and her Christian faith.

Steve discusses his lived experience of autism, parenting his children who are on the autism spe...