Mad Dreaming with SF: A Plea to Educators to Create Spaces for Reimagined/Transformative Futures
Maria Karmiris
Disability Studies Quarterly12/10/2025·DOI·Read paper
Abstract
This paper invites educators to engage in Mad dreaming with SF. Mad dreaming with SF is conceptualized at the intersections of Mad Studies, Critical Disability Studies (CDS), decolonial studies and posthumanism. This interdisciplinary approach is intended to offer an urgent provocation to educators to stop reproducing western colonialism in its current neoliberal iteration. Through a contestation of the western colonial notion that progress and developmentalism are leading to better futures, this paper is a plea to educators to create spaces for the reimagining of definitively Mad futures. Mad dreaming with SF considers what it might mean to refuse to repeat past and present abuses of power. In order to stop the progress and further development of the neoliberal order of things, I propose the need for the kind of Mad Dreaming with SF that will remain haunted by the perils of perpetuating injustices between each other. Mad Dreaming with SF also desires the enactment of futures that have yet to be imagined. This paper ultimately seeks to enact mad methods wherein teachers and students play in and with Mad dreaming as a vital strategy of human survival that embraces the potentialities in anti-colonial, anti-ableist, and anti-sanist futures.
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