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Following Painting\u27s Quiet Call to Adventure
Get PDFYael Goverover, OTR/L, Ph.D., professor and post-professional program director of occupational therapy at New York University at Steinhardt (NYU), provided the cover art for the summer issue of the Open Journal of Occupational Therapy. This oil painting on canvas, titled, Still Life, 2024, features an arrangement of everyday objects with vibrant tones of gold, yellow, orange, and green found in the vase, and a coffeepot, fruits, and botanicals set against a backdrop of scarlet and striped patterned fabrics. She created this piece while on sabbatical in Israel as she studied under the tutelage of a seasoned oil painter. The composition is derived from two different arrangements combined into a single image, and is one of her many works that feature elegant, celebratory arrangements of still lifes, landscapes, and figures. While she refers to it as a vacation, painting from observation is a difficult practice that provides never-ending problems to solve and opportunities for growth. With art as a lifelong occupation, the skills of careful observation and self-reflection gained from years of painting have helped to deepen her observation and problem-solving abilities required in her roles as an educator, clinician, and researcher focused on interventions for individuals with neurological impairments
Sustaining Critical Support Services for Relative Caregivers Through the Covid-19 Pandemic and BEYOND
Get PDFThis practice brief outlines model practice strategies for building and sustaining critical support services for kinship caregivers during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. While the long-term impacts of COVID-19 were still unfolding, research increasingly showed the profound effect the pandemic had on family well-being worldwide. Already managing the trauma that necessitated the placement of most children, kinship families faced additional challenges, including the fear and uncertainty surrounding health risks and the complete upheaval of community resources as schools, state offices, and social service agencies limited or closed their operations. This led to unprecedented levels of economic, housing, transportation, and food insecurities. The article highlights the critical role of marketing, engagement, and supportive service strategies providers might employ to promote the well-being of kinship families. The authors also acknowledge that outreach efforts may vary across the country due to factors such as geographic location (rural vs. urban), community culture, and economic conditions
Bad Trans Feelings in Bárðar saga Snæfellsáss
No full textThe past ten years have seen a trans turn in medieval studies, with a surge of publications correcting misconceptions of the Middle Ages as exclusively cisheteronormative. Recovering moments of medieval trans joy is a central aim of this scholarship, in order to unsettle modern negativity towards transness. But sometimes, to paraphrase Hil Malatino (2021), “being trans feels bad.” To broaden the archive of feeling within premodern trans studies, this article turns to the understudied context of Old Norse-Icelandic literature – which offers few instances of identifiable let alone recuperable trans figures. My discussion focuses on Bárðar saga Snæfellsáss (ca. 1320) and the bad feelings of its heroine, the giantess Helga Bárðardóttir. Embracing what Malatino calls ‘trans intercorporeality’ as an interpretative strategy, I examine the trans inflections of her bad feelings, locating them within medieval discourses of heteronormativity and passing. This article offers a framework that recognizes trans possibility without insisting upon modern diagnostic or sexological criteria, while also demonstrating how Old Norse-Icelandic literature expands our understanding of what constitutes trans history
