Lauren Munro

In today's show, I am joined by Lauren Munro, a mad scholar and fat activist, a limited-term faculty member at Toronto Metropolitan University, and a PhD Candidate at Wilfrid Laurier University. We talk about her work with the Empowerment Council at CAMH where, alongside Lucy Costa, they teach psychiatric medical resident students a course called "Centering Madness."  We discuss the challenges and benefits of educating future psychiatrists about mad studies and consider how this might be one way that disability can save the world…

Academic Crush: Caleb Luna, Merrick Pilling, and Eli Clare

Currently reading: Queer and Trans Madness: Struggles for Social Justice by Merrick Pilling - The Stories Around Us, Edited by Rana Khan (associated email address is Anthology20rf@gmail.com)

As always, a complete transcript of this podcast is available on my website: fadyshanouda.com