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PSYCH MURDERS: A Turtle Disco Offering at New College
January 26, 2023 @ 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Join us for an hour offering in community that will include a reading and invitations for movement, writing/drawing, and rest. Stephanie Heit will share work from PSYCH MURDERS (Wayne State University Press, 2022), a hybrid memoir poem that takes you inside psychiatric wards, shock treatments, and suicidal ideation, toward new futures of care. Due to the content nature, we will begin with a protective meditation and care options will be offered throughout. Bring writing/art materials you desire (journal, pen, laptop, colored pencils, etc.). Dress in comfy layers to support movement and stillness.
Date: January 26th 2023
Time: 6:30-7:30 PM
Location: William Doo Auditorium, 45 Willcocks St.
Send your RSVPs, questions, and access requests to Miggy Esteban at [email protected]
A note about Turtle Disco:
Turtle Disco is a somatic writing space codirected by Petra Kuppers and Stephanie Heit since 2017. Based in their living room on Anishinaabe land in Michigan and in the zoomshell, Turtle Disco cultivates disability culture experimentation, creative self-care, communal inquiry, connection, and awareness. They aim to provide a welcoming and supportive environment, grounded in a crip/mad/queer led ethos.
Presenter’s Bio:
Stephanie Heit (she/her) is a queer disabled poet, dancer, teacher, and codirector of Turtle Disco, a somatic writing space on Anishinaabe territory in Ypsilanti, Michigan. She is a Zoeglossia Fellow, bipolar, a mad activist, a shock/psych system survivor, and a member of the Olimpias, an international disability performance collective. Her poetry collections are the hybrid memoir poem PSYCH MURDERS (Wayne State University Press, 2022), which invites the reader inside psychiatric wards and shock treatments toward new futures of care, and The Color She Gave Gravity (Operating System, 2017), which explores the seams of language, movement, and mental health difference. Website: https://stephanie-heit.com
Image Description of Poster: A poster with a brown background and event information in yellow and white lettering. In the centre is an image taken by Tamara Wade. The image is a headshot of Stephanie Heit, a white queer disabled cis woman smiling, wearing a purple wrap, with brown wavy hair in a bob. She is on (perhaps in, feet dangling) the Huron River with background muted green of tree leaves, and dappled light before dusk.