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Tasha

@tasha-tasha.bsky.social

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Independent scholar. Mad and Neurodivergent. Bi. Trying to be less allergic to social media. Based in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England. she/her

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Tasha @tasha-tasha.bsky.social · 17d

Excited to be contributing some thoughts about how a Maddened Neurodivergent literary analysis looks in practice to this forthcoming issue 😁 look out for it next year!

Tasha @tasha-tasha.bsky.social · Aug 18

Some photos from the Japanese early modern palaeography summer school at Cambridge!! So cool to get more to terms with using these kinds of materials

Tasha @tasha-tasha.bsky.social · Jul 21

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First cohort graduate from pioneering programme at Northumbria University

Learners from a pioneering and inclusive programme recording the importance of public involvement in research were among thousands of students celebrating the end of their studies at Northumbria Unive...

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Tasha @tasha-tasha.bsky.social · Jul 18

Hi all, I will be offering some limited translation support for the event 'Disability and Critical Psychology in Japan' taking place tomorrow (9am-11am UK Time), hosted by The Critical Psychology Colloquium of the Japanese Psychological Association and Afro-Asian Critical Psychology 🙂

Disability and Critical Psychology in Japan /日本の障害者問題と批判心理学

Date (開催日）: 　19 July 2025（2025年 7 月 19 日） Online event　（オンライン開催） Contact （問い合わせ）: [email protected]（Japanese）[email protected] （English）

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Tasha @tasha-tasha.bsky.social · Jul 14

Happy Mad Pride day 💜🩷 had fun at Mad Insight’s picnic yesterday in Edinburgh. Was great to exist in community, celebrate mad culture and discuss resistance to psychiatry 💪

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Mad in America @mad-in-america.bsky.social · Jul 5

ChatGPT Weakens Your Ability to Think, MIT Study Finds
by Peter Simons

“Interaction with AI systems may lead to diminished prospects for independent problem-solving and critical thinking,” the researchers write.
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ChatGPT Weakens Your Ability to Think, MIT Study Finds

The researchers raise "concerns about the long-term implications for human intellectual development and autonomy."

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Tasha @tasha-tasha.bsky.social · Jul 10

Graduated today with a distinction in Cert Public Involvement and Co-production!! Had a great day celebrating in the sun, huge congratulations to my entire cohort ☀️ #NUGrad @northumbriauni.bsky.social

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Tasha @tasha-tasha.bsky.social · Jul 5

Had a great time last night at the National LD and Autism awards representing the Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training at @northumbriauni.bsky.social as one of the autistic lived-experience co-trainers 😁 we didn’t win but is amazing to be nominated for the transformational training partnership award ✨

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A card reading ‘The National Learning Disabilities & Autism Awards 2025 Log my care
Natasha Downs NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY’

Tasha @tasha-tasha.bsky.social · Jul 4

Off to the national learning disability and autism awards tonight at the Birmingham ICC representing The Oliver McGowan training programme at @northumbriauni.bsky.social 😁😁

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Asylum Magazine @asylummagazine.bsky.social · Jul 1

Important to remember this
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The Polyphony @the-polyphony.bsky.social · Jun 30

On Day 6 of the Critical Neurodiversity Studies takeover @tasha-tasha.bsky.social calls for literary scholars within Mad Studies & Neurodiversity Studies to engage with one another, exploring the possibilities of and justifications for a ‘Mad[]Neurodiverse’ literary analysis.
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On Mad[]Neurodiverse Literary Possibilities

Critical Neurodiversity Studies takeover: Natasha Downs calls for literary scholars within Mad Studies and Neurodiversity Studies to engage with one another, exploring the possibilities of and just…

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Tasha @tasha-tasha.bsky.social · Jun 30

okay first post! Had a great time sharing my perspective on Mad and Neurodiversity literary approaches at the the Critical Neurodiversity Studies conference :) so grateful to be made a fellow and to meet other neurodivergent scholar-activists ~

@durhamimh.bsky.social @ndhumanities.bsky.social

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A person presents a slide reading 'Mad Literary Approaches: Anti-sanist readings reinscribe madness where 'mental illness' was previously read, empowering mad knowledges with validity and epistemic value, and believ[ing] the mad version of events' (Taggart 2024, 40'

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