Teaching and Researching with a Mental Health Diagnosis: Practices and Perspectives on Academic Ableism
Ann Green, Alyssa Hillary, Lucia Dura, Patrick Harris, Leah Heilig, Bailey Kirby, Jay McClintick, Emily Pfender, and Rebecca Carrasco
Date posted: April 2020
Nine people with mental health diagnoses wrote a dialogue to discuss how we navigate our conditions and ask for accommodations within an academic setting. We cogitate on the challenges of obtaining a diagnosis, how and when we disclose, the affordances and challenges of our symptoms, seeking accommodations, and advocating for ourselves. We consider how current scholarship and other perspectives are changing the conversation about mental health in the academy. We conclude that while the 2008 revisions to the Americans with Disabilities Act have addressed necessary accommodations, that those with mental health conditions are still seeking access.
Topic: mental health, pedagogy, diagnosis, accommodations, ableism, mental health disability
Review of Kelly Pender’s Being at Genetic Risk: Toward a Rhetoric of Care
Jillian K. Zwilling
Date posted: July 2020
Being at Genetic Risk: Toward a Rhetoric of Care. Kelly Pender. University Park, PA, The Pennsylvania State Press, 2018. 174 pages, $69.95 hardcover. Publisher webpage: https://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-08212-7.html
DOI: 10.5744/rhm.2020.1019
Topic: genetic risk, BRCA+, cancer, rhetoric of care, diagnosis, screening
