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“De-Privatizing Self-Harm: Remembering the Social Self in How to Forget”

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In this publication, Theodora Danylevich reads Malu De Martino’s 2010 film Como Esqueçer (How to Forget) as a case study in self-harm as a mode of expression and self-inquiry. The author argues that How to Forget charts a “crip” epistemology of self-harm and theorizes a “social self.” That is to say, the film models an orientation towards self-harm that offers a coalitional and social therapeutic understanding.

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Scholarship 2016
Theodora Danylevich