Holistic Treatment Plans this Thursday, June 28th in Minneapolis
Submitted by sealux on Mon, 06/25/2007 - 2:56pmThursday, June 28th 7 pm
Arise! & the Belfry Center Present
“Made From Scratch” DIY Summer Series: Mental Health Workshop
Brought to you by the Icarus Project - Minneapolis
The Icarus Project Minneapolis (a local radical mental health group) presents a workshop on how to take care of your mental health. We’ll be discussing and creating “holistic treatment plans” to outline what we need to do if we’re feeling stressed, depressed, burnt-out, or dealing with mental illness. We’ll talk about what works, what doesn’t, how friends can support us, and how we can address these issues within activist communities.
The workshop starts at 7pm. At dusk (9ish) outside (weather permitting) we’ll be showing Tarnation, an amazing documentary made by a son about his mom’s mental illness.
2442 Lyndale Avenue S, Minneapolis, MN
Email icarusmpls (@) gmail (.) com for more details
Christin’s note: I am arranging for a notary to come in to witness advance directives to make them a “legal” document. I am pretty sure this will happen.
Tarnation
Hi Sealux,
It's good to hear you're holding such and important event accompanied by a great documentary. I saw it not too long ago. But I wanted to comment on the movie and maybe tell me what your opinion on my comments are.
Whether the filmaker's preference for men is genetic or developmental makes no difference to me. At the end of the movie he seems to have reached a point in his life where he was in a good place and doing well emotionally and that included his relationship with his boyfriend. So his choice of sexual partners is okay with me (as if it should even matter that it be okay with me or anyone else). The problem is the psychoanalytical community's possible take on his "homosexuality" and the gay rights movement who fight back against that possible take on it, and hope to achieve their rights by the still not definitive evidence that sexual orientation is genetic (I personally think that there is an important genetic component in sexuality, but it may not be the only component to the whole complex dynamics of sexuality). It seems to me that the filmaker telling us how his mother was battered and raped in front of him as a child and then at 11 does a (by the way fantastic) performance as a battered woman might be making an argument against his own sexual orientation and the preferences of the gay community (I say preference in plural because the community is heterogenous, with various identities fighting oppression within it and some being discriminated against by some gays who.fight for the status quos convenient assimilation of a strict homosexual identity as a side institution, even if institutionalized heterosexuality will do its best to maintain the minor institution ghettoized and still marginal).
So do you think that even though this movie, while very interesting to us because it deals with the issue of mental illness, might not be hurting members with queer identities?
Sorry about the final tangent. But what is your opinion on my analysis.
Juan
Hey Juan Thanks for your
Hey Juan
Thanks for your thoughts. I watched Tarnation less than a year ago so its pretty fresh in my mind and to be frank never considered that it might be hurtful. I can see that you definitely some valid points, but I would hope that it would be used a tool for dialogue. We usually do an introduction to the movie and I can definitely bring up that we are screening the movie because it is from an interesting perspective of a person dealing with his mother's and his own mental health and leave people to their own opinions about the degree that sexual preference is genetic.
I guess I am not the best person to have a discussion with on gender theory because I have been married for three years in a hetero relationship. But I can speak that I feel very irrated when what I experience only has a genetic component. Does that make sense?