0.37 Normalizing Harmful Shit, Again: Talking Mental Health + Pop Culture

Buffering the Vampire Slayer

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🗓️ 7 July 2021

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Sarah Duncan, a Pop Culture Scholar, Multidisciplinary Artist & Cultural Worker, is here in conversation with Kristin & Alba — we are talking about the harmful mental health tropes found in Buffy's Normal Again, how common they are across pop culture, and how harmful and dangerous those tropes have been and continue to be! Kristin & Jenny will be here with your episodic conversation on S6E17: Normal Again tomorrow! +++ July is Disability Pride Month! Please, if you are able, donate to Students With Psychosis — an organization that empowers student leaders globally through community building and collaboration. Their goal is to expand mental health/brain health advocacy at the college level to ensure psychosis representation, including a global perspective. DONATE & LEARN MORE HERE:sws.ngo +++ LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET Sarah Duncan: Twitter @sarah__duncan / Instagram @dame_sarahduncan / sarahmduncan.com Alba Daza: Instagram @alba.daza / albadaza.com Kristin Russo: @kristinnoeline; kristinnoeline.com Buffering the Vampire Slayer: @bufferingcast on twitter, facebook, and instagram Learn more about our team at bufferingthevampireslayer.com/our-team +++ CONTINUED READING / LEARNING Absolutely Stunning List of Supplementary Resources on Disability created by Sarah: https://www.bufferingthevampireslayer.com/normal-again NYTimes Review of Girl, Interrupted:https://www.nytimes.com/1999/12/21/movies/film-review-get-over-it-little-girl-stop-your-whining.html More on Eli Clare: http://eliclare.com/disability/disability-pride? +++ Produced by: Sarah Duncan, Alba Daza, & Kristin Russo Edited by: John Mark Nelson & Kristin Russo +++ JOIN OUR PATREON FAMILY!! Advance Music, Bonus Episodes, Live Concerts, Book Clubs, wheeeee!! patreon.com/bufferingcast Logo: Kristine Thune +++ We acknowledge that we and our team are occupying unceded and stolen lands and territories. Kristin occupies the Lenape territories of the Esopus Lenape Peoples. Jenny occupies the Wabanahkik territory of the Abenaki and Pennacook Peoples. Alba occupies Tiohtià:ke of the Kanien’kehá:ka Nation. Mack, LaToya, and John Mark occupy the lands of the Kizh Peoples. Learn more about Land Acknowledgments + our continued anti-racist efforts at bufferingthevampireslayer.com/justkeepfighting

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, hello, it is a Wednesday and we are not here with an episodic conversation,
0:11.1	but we are here with a very special episode.
0:14.2	Listen, our episodic conversation on normal again is going to air tomorrow, a Thursday,
0:20.0	scandalous, but we thought, no, gasp.
0:23.8	We thought it was really important though to give you this conversation first.
0:27.0	One of our listeners, Sarah Duncan, who is a pop culture scholar, a multidisciplinary
0:32.1	artist, and a cultural worker is here in conversation with producer Alba Jazza and myself.
0:37.9	We talk about this week's episode of Buffy, normal again, but we're focusing in on the
0:42.3	harmful mental health tropes, how common they are across pop culture, and how harmful and
0:47.3	dangerous those tropes have been and continue to be.
0:51.0	It's a really powerful discussion and I am so excited to share it with everyone.
0:55.6	Yeah, and as somebody who has already heard this episode, let me tell you what, it's
1:00.5	pretty great, really, really fascinating, illuminating stuff.
1:05.9	It's also really important to note that this month July is Disability Pride Month, and so
1:11.5	centering this conversation on mental health specifically is a really powerful way to begin
1:16.1	our July together.
1:18.3	If you're new to learning about disability pride and what that means, we are going to share
1:22.1	a quote from Eli Claire, who is a writer, poet, and activist.
1:25.9	This was taken from a speech made at a disability pride event in 2010.
1:31.7	Disability Pride calls for celebration, hope, rebellion.
1:35.6	We take shame, fear, and isolation, turn them around and forge wholeness.
1:41.6	Pride refuses to let the daily grind of ableism, discrimination, exclusion, violence, and
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