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Language a Tool of Love and Liberation - Can language liberate us?

Fri 12 Mar

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Time & Location

12 Mar 2021, 11:00 – 13:00

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About the Event

Language constructs our realities. It is a process through which power is gained and maintained. The stories we tell about our own suffering and our young people’s suffering are commonly medicalised, individualised and rely on psychiatric diagnoses. We will use this session to explore how language (including 'risk' and 'recovery’) can obscure structural trauma and perpetuate harm. We will touch on the histories of diagnostic language, and how it has operated as a tool to oppress black and queer people.

What does reclaiming language and re-authoring our stories of suffering look like? Dr Sanah Ahsan looks forward to meeting these difficult questions together, reflecting on how language might be used as a means of liberation. She hopes we will cultivate a courageous and compassionatespace, where we can embrace each other’s madness and suffering. She will invite you to engage with poetry and exercises of embodiment for us to collectively deepen…

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Location: Partnership for Young London, City of London, Guildhall, London EC2V 7HH

 

Postal: Partnership for Young London, City of London, PO Box 270, Guildhall, London EC2P 2EJ

Charity registration number: 1062226

Company Limited by Guarantee: 3334117

 

Illustrations by Drew Sinclair 

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