Exploring Art-Based Research on ‘Madness’ through Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies with Natalia Bonczek and Helen S2Ep4

Today Helen chats with Natalia Bonczek about feminism, art-based research, mental health, and learning from Indigenous scholars at York University. We cover some of Natalia’s most inspiring professors and classes that led to transitioning from a Psychology Undergrad to a Gender, Sexuality and Women’s studies major and how this led to pursuing a Master’s degree researching Madness (mental health from lived experience). We learn more about how Natalia uses art to build community and think critically about complicated topics. Natalia encourages any curious mind to explore the possibilities of feminism and artmaking and provides practical advice for first-year university students.

Natalia’s work can be found at: www.nebx.ca

Read more about Natalia’s publication “Misster E” at:https://yourreview.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/yourreview/article/view/40698/36990

Links referred to in Land Acknowledgment

https://www.mcgill.ca/indigenous/

https://calgaryfoundation.org/about-us/reconciliation/land-acknowledgement/

https://aboriginal.info.yorku.ca/land-acknowledgment/

https://theeyeopener.com/2021/03/opinion-before-you-state-a-land-acknowledgement-mean-it/

https://www.onondaganation.org/culture/wampum/

https://www.onondaganation.org/culture/wampum/two-row-wampum-belt-guswenta/

https://clas.osu.edu/sites/clas.osu.edu/files/Tuck%20and%20Yang%202012%20Decolonization%20is%20not%20a%20metaphor.pdf

Sexuality Studies Spotlight is produced by Stephanie Jonsson, Hannah Maitland, Angela Stanley, Kathleen Cherrington, Sarah Westerhof, Helen Martin, and Keely O'Brien. This podcast is made possible through support from the York University Sexuality Studies Program, Innovation York’s Knowledge Mobilization Unit, and the Media Creation Lab at Scott Library. This podcast was produced on the traditional territory of many Indigenous Nations, and we invite our audience to visit native-land.ca to learn more about the land where they’re listening.

For a written transcript of this episode, please visit: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1lsQg_pH4sS8DRb22h3YRE8W2D3oDWiZ7?usp=sharing

Content Note: This podcast features discussions of sex and sexuality that may include references to sexual and gender-based discrimination/violence/assault/abuse or other potentially triggering topics. Listener discretion is advised.

Resources:

York Resources: SASSL- https://sassl.info.yorku.ca/

Canada-Wide Resources: DAWN- https://www.dawncanada.net/issues/crisis-hotlines/

Crisis Text Line- https://www.crisistextline.org/topics/sexual-abuse/#understanding-sexual-abuse-1