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Bryn Mawr's Kairotic Spaces

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In my next paper, I would like to further observe Price's concept of kairotic space that enables or disables (wow) mental illness. I will use her manifestations of this concept as well as interview a student, preferably who has been involved in TLI and observed one or many classes critically, and a professor who is interested in accommodations for mental illness in the classroom.

I will reference Price’s observations, the accounts in my interviews, as well as “’Coming into Presence’ as Mentally Ill in Academia: A New Logic of Emancipation” by Rochelle Skogen and “Dispel the Stigma of Mental Illness” by Alice Andors. Ideally, I would include equal parts of student and teacher perspective.

Some questions I currently have include:

Are Bryn Mawr's kairotic spaces accepting of mental illness?

How does the administration perceive and enable or disable conversations about mental illness in kairotic spaces? What about professors and students?

How can Bryn Mawr better utilize kairotic spaces to reach students and allow them to be open about their mental illness?