大象传媒

Audio-makers from around the world take over The Essay to offer a series of Radio 3's innovative Between the Ears features in miniature 鈥� each inspired by one of the five senses.

How does one live with a difficult diagnosis that offers glimmers of hope, but that also emerges from pathologising histories?

This feature by London-based Tej Adeleye is a neuromantic quest through the psyche to come to terms with neurodivergence, unearthing buried signals that call for a rewiring of values in relation to self, health and society. Delving into the sound of bad crip feelings, this piece tunes into the register of crip negativity to find anti-ableist horizons both internally and in the outside world.

Featuring Faith Becky Oyeri, Jeanet Oyeri Fru from the Justice for Emmanuel Fru Campaign, Wemimo Aliyu, Micha Frazer Carroll, author of 'MAD WORLD: the politics of mental health鈥�, J. Logan Smilges author of Crip Negativity and Robert Chapman, author of Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism

Original composition, 鈥淧hases鈥�, by the composer and artist Matana Roberts.

Tej Adeleye is a writer, audio producer and arts programmer. Her arts practice focuses on the connections between past and present black political struggles using multidisciplinary activations, popular education and archives.

A Falling Tree production for 大象传媒 Radio Three