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“I Still have My Hands”

Rural Women, Depression, and Zines

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Working the Margins of Community-Based Adult Learning

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Abstract

Art cultivates radical learning at the margins: at the seams of reason, language, and society. In 2011, I came together with three other young rural Canadian women who self-identified as having experienced severe depression in early adulthood. The resulting project, Seamfulness, documented the rich transformative learning that unfolded from spaces of emotional, mental, spiritual, and physical rupture and repair.

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  1. St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada

    Paula Cameron

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  1. University of British Columbia, Canada

    Shauna Butterwick

  2. St. Francis Xavier University, Canada

    Carole Roy

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Cameron, P. (2016). “I Still have My Hands”. In: Butterwick, S., Roy, C. (eds) Working the Margins of Community-Based Adult Learning. International Issues in Adult Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-483-1_2

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