Mad, Crip, Queer Pride is a documentary series built around lived experience. Across the series, members of the University community speak about madness, disability and queerness on their own terms, refusing the tidy narratives usually offered to them.

Read more:

Smart, G.L., Madness, Neurodiversity, and Disability: The Complex Relationship, in The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Disability
https://link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/978-3-031-40858-8_57-1

Re;Minding Histories
https://www.remindinghistories.net/

Video 1: Language and Frameworks in the Movement

In this first instalment, members of the University of Sydney community talk about what it means to identify as mad, crip and/or queer, why reclaiming these words as identity markers matters, and how pride sits alongside language that has so often been used to pathologise.

Video 2: History and Leaders of the Movements

In this second instalment, members of the University of Sydney community reflect on the milestones, leaders and turning points that have shaped mad, crip and queer movements, and on how those histories are taking shape here in Australia and at the University of Sydney.

Video 3: Future Directions for Mad-Crip-Queer Pride

In this final instalment, members of the University of Sydney community talk about the challenges facing mad, crip and queer communities today, what stronger alliances between these movements might look like, and what they most want viewers to carry away from this series.

Sponsored by

Sydney University Postgraduate Representative Association (SUPRA)
Student Services and Amenities Fee (SSAF)

Credits

Executive Producer

Gemma Lucy Smart

Editor

Jax Gill

Speakers

Associate Professor Shane Clifton; Robin M. Eames; Daniele Gianotti; Sarah M. Huffman; Matthew Jackman; Associate Professor Roxanna Pebdani; Gemma Lucy Smart; Muhammad Novsyaroni Umar

With thanks to:

Associate Professor Justin Scanlan
Professor Hans Pols
Re;Minding Histories
Centre for Disability Research and Policy
School of History and Philosophy of Science
Diversity & Inclusion, University of Sydney
Faculty of Science
University of Sydney Union (USU)

Acknowledgement of Country

We acknowledge the Traditional Owners and Custodians of this Country. We recognise their continued connection to the land and waters. We pay our respect to Elders past and present. This land was never ceded.