Problematizing Wellbeing: Critical Feminism and Practices of Care in the Arts Therapies - Dr Toni Wright, Dr Karen Wright and Professor Savneet Talwar
Problematizing Wellbeing: Critical Feminism and Practices of Care in the Arts Therapies - Dr Toni Wright, Dr Karen Wright and Professor Savneet Talwar
Part of the seminar series, 'The Spaces Between: Equity, Voice, Agency and Care Practices Involving the Arts and Arts Therapies'
Feminism is a praxis, a theory, methodology and pedagogy that engages with anti-oppressive struggles as interlinked and connected by the common denominator of experiencing the oppressions of white supremacist capitalist patriarchal power anddomination. Feminism has challenged the structures of globalization, capitalism, andneoliberalism and how they have impacted women and other oppressed populations, their labor practices, and mainstream conceptions of the self and the therapeutic. This presentation engages with the concept of “feminisms” and how each presenter came to define feminism as a personal and political identity and methodology. It is followed by two case studies to examine the application of feminist pedagogy and to trouble practices of care that attend to false conditions of safety and protection in the face of systemic oppression and violence.