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In this episode, I speak with Sarah Redikopp about self-harm and self-mutilation. Sarah is a mad and lived experience activist-academic and PhD candidate in the Graduate Program of Gender, Feminist and Women\\u2019s Studies at York University in Toronto, Canada. Sarah\\u2019s research uses critical and feminist theory and methods to critique psychiatric knowledges about self-harm. Drawing on insights from mad studies, queer and feminist affect theory, critical and feminist disability studies, and critical race theory, Sarah\\u2019s scholarship engages directly with lived experience accounts to co-create\\xa0relational, intersectional, and contextualized engagements with\\xa0self-harm and to inform social justice outcomes in \\u201cmental health\\u201d research. At the heart of Sarah\\u2019s work is a commitment to witnessing across difference and intervening into the pathologization of distress to inform social change. Sarah\\u2019s work has been published in scholarly, community, and grassroots publishing venues, including\\xa0Sociology of Health and Illness\\xa0(2022, 2023) and\\xa0The Canadian Journal of Disability Studies\\xa0(2021),\\xa0Canada Watch\\xa0(2021), and more. Sarah lives and works as a white settler in Tkaronto/Toronto, on the traditional lands of the\\xa0Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat peoples.