Mad Ecopoetics as Resistance:Restor[y]ing Multispecies Relationships through a Borderline-Centred Art Practice

This presentation emerges from my doctoral research and develops a borderline-centred creative practice as both scholarly enquiry and act of resistance to sanist and anthropocentric discourse. I develop this from my own experience as someone diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD).<br/><br/>Clinically defined by emotional intensity and unstable identity, BPD is here reframed as an embodied awareness of relational entanglement — the existential experience of borderlines expose the porous boundaries of the individual, and the co-constitutive nature of identity.<br/><br/>My research reclaims borderline madness as ecological sensibility. Rooted in Mad Studies, feminist theory, and multispecies philosophy, my research repositions borderline epistemologies as those which might provide insights into how identity is co-constituted not only of human others, but non-human others also.