Slumgullion: A neuroqueer long-distance hiker’s questions about landscapes in drama therapeutic relationality

Abstract

I thru-hiked the Appalachian Trail in 2016. In this episodic essay, I offer descriptions of personal encounters to contemplate specific lands and drama therapeutic landscapes. I am taking curious, meandering footsteps towards a neuroqueer, posthuman ecological drama therapy praxis. Sesame drama therapy often relies on imagination to offer itself to the conscious world, but ecosomatic experience can offer a ‘co-construct[ed]’ subjectivity, reframing Merleau-Ponty’s ‘flesh’ as a ‘relation of reversibility’ between ‘the seer and the seen’, the external and the internal – an ecological dynamic in which several liberatory frameworks take root.