title: De-Privatizing Self-Harm: Remembering the Social Self in How to Forget.
abstract: This article 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. Drawing on disability and queer theory, psychoanalysis, and sociology of medicine, 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. Based on this reading, the author suggests the application of practices of knowing-with, or knowing-in-relation as "cripistemology" to a broader therapeutic, research, and lay context.
authors.affiliation: Department of English, The George Washington University, 636 Phillips Hall, 801 22nd St., NW, Washington, DC, 20052, USA. theodora@gwu.edu.
authors.forename: Theodora
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0607-3940
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Danylevich
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D006233:Persons with Disabilities; D006801:Humans; D019359:Knowledge; D008513:Medicine in Literature; D008568:Memory; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000628:therapy; D009040:Motion Pictures; D016728:Self-Injurious Behavior; D012961:Sociology
keywords: Body studies; Critical health studies; Medical sociology; Self-harm; Skin ego