Dreams, Visions and Hallucinations: Disability and Other Ways of Seeing

Sensorium, VISTAandThe Peripheral Visions Speaker Series Presents:
DREAMS, VISIONS, HALLUCINATIONS:DISABILITY & OTHER WAYS OF SEEING
March 6, 2019 | 4-5:30 pm in the Joe G. Green Theatre
Dolleen Tisawii’ashii Manninghosts a public conversation with Traditional DoctorandElder Mona Stonefish on Anishinaabe dream imaging practicesandtheir implications for critical disability studies.Manningworked with her motherandStonefish in developing her mnidoo theory of consciousness. This interrelational understanding of perceptionandknowing involves a possession by these living potencies, along with an expanded understanding of vision. In this discussion, they question western conceptions of abilityanddisability, while also considering the debilitating impact of colonialism.