OVERSPILL: the poetics & politics of writing the self

​SYMPOSIUM:

​A collaboration with Mental Health Social Justice Network

​Anne Boyer 
Sarona Abuaker
Sita Balani
Lola Olufemi
Donna Marcus Duke
& June Archbold
(School of Cvntology)
Mental Health Justice Network
Entrar Afuera
pratyusha
Katie Lewis Hood
Maxe Crandall
Remi Graves
Hesse K.
& more...

​Overspill asks what it means to write from the self in a moment when personal narrative is everywhere: demanded by institutions, shaped by platforms, and commodified as authenticity. Bringing together writers and artists across fiction, non-fiction and poetry, the symposium explores the politics and poetics of writing the self, tracing what exceeds the individual—oppression, labour, class, injury, care, infrastructure, and the conditions that make a life narratable at all.

​Through discussions, workshops & an open mic reanimating collective archives, centring practices of listening and configuring the ‘auto’ as always plural, we consider the ways individual accounts can become a shared method. Traversing inheritance & fabulation, madness, imperialism, ecologies, trans collectivities & more,  Overspill explores the role of writing from the self in generating solidarities and ‘imagining otherwise.’

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