The Big Anxiety Speaker Series – Poetic Solidarities: Claudia Rankine and Evelyn Araluen
RMIT Culture2
Featuring an exciting line-up of expert creative thinkers The Big Anxiety Speaker Series features conversations and performances exploring the major anxieties of our time.
Join two highly celebrated poets and thinkers, Claudia Rankine and Evelyn Araluen, as they hold a rigorous and collaborative live conversation that expands on their co-written essay “Poetic Solidarities” from The Big Anxiety: Taking Care of Mental Health in Time of Crisis.
This is a thrilling opportunity to witness a deeply-considered and far-reaching discussion of the potential of poetry for political resistance. Through the shared lens of their work as poets and academics, Rankine and Araluen will consider the ways Western psychiatry and conceptions of mental health can enable institutional racism, colonialism, and operate as extensions of oppressive structures like the medical and industrial prison complex.
Claudia Rankine will join Evelyn Araluen and the audience via live cross.
This event is co-presented by RMIT Culture and The Wheeler Centre.
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