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- 20 sessions.
- 15 Live Q&As, exclusively hosted on Airmeet.
- Gatherings exclusively hosted on Airmeet.
- Giveaways, exclusively hosted on Airmeet.
- Meet and greets, exclusively hosted on Airmeet.
- 7 days of replays, including the live Q&As, exclusively hosted on Airmeet.
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Liorah Hoek
I am Liorah Hoek (she/they), a queer disabled integrated poly-fragmented plural, living and working in The Netherlands. I am trained as an artist, journalist and scholar. I work as a researcher and change maker in the fields of disability, madness and culture. Currently I am doing a PhD research with artists with plural identities. In this research we explore our ability to identify beyond binary identity markers with what is supposed to be alien or other to our bodies. This ability to identify with otherness is an expertise, which could be valuable in a polarised society.
About session:
We are living in a world where being singlet is the norm and being plural is seen as a psychiatric disorder. When we try to think and speak about plurality from a more cultural or identity based perspective we face several obstacles, In society, in science and also in our current understanding of plurality. In this session a few concepts will be introduced that might be helpful to overcome these obstacles: paradigm, models of disability/plurality, epistemic injustice, hermeneutic resources and crip. These concepts may help us to understand more clearly what our community can do to come to an experience based understanding and representation of plurality. Research on Meet the Alters vlogs om YouTube will be used as an example how these concepts create a counter-narrative to existing research on plural vlogs on video-based platforms. The session will be in plain language for all who are interested in representation of plurality in media and how we can create a viable counter-narrative to existing understandings of plurality.
Topic of the session
plural culture, epistemic injustice, hermeneutic resources, Meet the Alters vlogs, disability studies, mad studies, crip theory
Dislcaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this session are those of the presenter(s) and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of The Plural Association.
The Plural Positivity World Conference happens every year online in May or June. Get your ticket and find out more about PPWC and our other virtual events at: powertotheplurals.com/events Join PPWC live in Airmeet, May 24 and 25 for the full conference experience:
- 20 sessions.
- 15 Live Q&As, exclusively hosted on Airmeet.
- Gatherings exclusively hosted on Airmeet.
- Giveaways, exclusively hosted on Airmeet.
- Meet and greets, exclusively hosted on Airmeet.
- 7 days of replays, including the live Q&As, exclusively hosted on Airmeet.
👉 Watch live Q&As and join the full experience now on Airmeet: powertotheplurals.com/ppwc – Use code PPWC25 for 25% off your ticket.
Liorah Hoek
I am Liorah Hoek (she/they), a queer disabled integrated poly-fragmented plural, living and working in The Netherlands. I am trained as an artist, journalist and scholar. I work as a researcher and change maker in the fields of disability, madness and culture. Currently I am doing a PhD research with artists with plural identities. In this research we explore our ability to identify beyond binary identity markers with what is supposed to be alien or other to our bodies. This ability to identify with otherness is an expertise, which could be valuable in a polarised society.
About session:
We are living in a world where being singlet is the norm and being plural is seen as a psychiatric disorder. When we try to think and speak about plurality from a more cultural or identity based perspective we face several obstacles, In society, in science and also in our current understanding of plurality. In this session a few concepts will be introduced that might be helpful to overcome these obstacles: paradigm, models of disability/plurality, epistemic injustice, hermeneutic resources and crip. These concepts may help us to understand more clearly what our community can do to come to an experience based understanding and representation of plurality. Research on Meet the Alters vlogs om YouTube will be used as an example how these concepts create a counter-narrative to existing research on plural vlogs on video-based platforms. The session will be in plain language for all who are interested in representation of plurality in media and how we can create a viable counter-narrative to existing understandings of plurality.
Topic of the session
plural culture, epistemic injustice, hermeneutic resources, Meet the Alters vlogs, disability studies, mad studies, crip theory
Dislcaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this session are those of the presenter(s) and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of The Plural Association.
![Représentations du TDI et de la multiplicité - Atome [PPWC 24 FR]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/QB2TI-SLt2o/mqdefault.jpg "Représentations du TDI et de la multiplicité - Atome [PPWC 24 FR]
The Plural Positivity World Conference happens every year online in May or June. Get your ticket and find out more about PPWC and our other virtual events at: https://powertotheplurals.com/events ó €¦âś¨ Plural Positivity World Conference 2024 ✨
Dans cette vidéo, par lintermédiaire des résultats dun sondage, nous explorerons limpact des représentations du TDI et de la multiplicité dans les médias (que ce soit dans la fiction ou par les personnes concernées).
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Psychophobie et médicalisation (sur quelques réponses), film Split
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https://www.partielles.com/ppwc24-representations-du-tdi-et-de-la-multiplicite-par-atome/
➡️ Présentée par :
Atome (@atome.systeme )
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![[CC] Plurality in a wider context by Non2](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/RjYkHxSts7A/mqdefault.jpg "[CC] Plurality in a wider context by Non2
The Plural Positivity World Conference happens every year online in May or June. Get your ticket and find out more about PPWC and our other virtual events at: https://powertotheplurals.com/events Plural Positivity World Conference 2023
Non2
Title of the session: Plurality in a wider context.
Please note that the session might touch on topics such as societal-scale trauma and spirituality.
Session description: Helping to situate the experience of plurality in a wider context. For those who care about a future of Humanity.
Presenter bio:
WHO :
I try to understand how the universe is structured, and my situation in it.
I explore the diversity of answers that are, or have been, proposed to those questions, at the scale of humanity.
I examine what each of them takes into account, excludes or neglects, explicitly and implicetly; and what are the consequences (in time, by the actions of those who take them as guidance).
Even if the distinction is not clearcut, there are at present two reference poles as to what is the best sort of answer.
The scientific and spiritual poles. I explore both.
On the scientific pole I studied theoretical physics. I got a MA. I did not pursue an academic carreer but follow the evolution of the field, mainly around the interpretation/justification/expansion of Quantum Mechanics.
But I also read a lot of biological and human sciences, mainly in an evolutionary, historical perspective.
On the spiritual pole I explored a wide variety of eastern philosophies.
Through philosophy/history of science, I reincorporated western philosophy and spirituality, but viewed from an eastern perspective.
In my view all disciplines and traditions have a more or less extensive domain of approximate validity/usefulness, many overestimate their domain.
I try to use the most appropriate disciplines for each particular context.
PLURALITY :
Concerning plurality, retroactively it is omnipresent, but the explicit awareness came about mainly through 3 experiences.
I was a close witness of the complete reversal of character, for about a week, of a very close friend. She died shortly after more or less regaining her usual character.
Later I had another close friend, during about 30 years. She had, at least in my opinion, a very high quality spiritual practice. But she had severe psychological problems, due to severe abuse from her mother starting in early childhood.
At one time another personality manifested itself, very abusive and opposit to the usual, and expressing views similar to those of her mother.
The usual personality was not aware of it. When I tried to make her aware of if, the alternate personality came to the front.
The third experience was reading the book The Minds of Billy Milligan. It gave me the impulse to develop, about 30 years ago, my own conceptualisation of a spectrum from explicitely multiple personalities (now renamed DID) to normal people (now renamed singlets) through intermediates (now named OSDD) such as myself.
In my view people who consider themselves as singlets just have a form of OSDD that is accepted by the society in which they live. For instance, in most western(ised) societies it is accepted that a drunk person manifests a very different personlity than sober, and that they can do certain things only when drunk, such as enjoy themselves.
HOW :
By helping to situate the experience of plurality in a wider context than psychiatry. Both for the people concerned and the societies in which they live. That both become aware that the experience of plurality is the inscription in individual bodies of phenomena pervading societies. And when there are trauma, they are the inscription of trauma of societies, some from a far past. Healing must happen at both scales.
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