Category: Nonfiction Essay
Artwork (9) Events (3) Interview (9) Memoir (1) Nonfiction Essay (11) Podcast (2) Poetry (4) Published Work (12) Short Story (1) Something Wonderful (1) Sound and Psychiatry (4) Talks (7)
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Dory Previn: On My Way to Where
One Night Only!Wednesday, March 19 Documentary screening and panel at the Clairidge Theater in Montclair NJ Link for in-person tickets here. To sign up…
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Lost Poetry: Psychiatry and Creativity
I lost a poem once, and I mourned it for many years. But, one day my grief became a map, and with it I…
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Webinar: Art-Making as an Alternative Philosophy of Care During Emotional Crisis
In this webinar, hosted by the National Empowerment Center, we will explore several conditions and intentions in art-making practice which can create spaces that support…
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Radical Acts of Community Healing and Self-Love
One thing has remained true for me as I’ve reflected on my journey into and out of the psychiatric system. My society—the education system,…
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Sound After Psychiatry
When Kim Wichera asked me to be on a panel co-sponsored by SoundsAbout Gallery and CTM Festival on the theme of sound and psychiatry, I immediately understood the potential of…
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Burning Down the House of Psychiatry During COVID
If there was ever a time to re-evaluate how we as a society deal with human suffering, I assure you, it is now. The…
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A Sigh of Survival…So Far
Midnight, And a sigh of survival…so far. At least, through this, And then, a sigh of bracing.
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Surviving the Bipolar Label
I am a woman who fully identified with the label bipolar for almost 20 years and, according to psychiatry, rightfully earned it with four…
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De-Weaponizing Empathy
As published in Mad in America I am not immune to what I call weaponized empathy, which I see as the pure intention of…
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Can We Allow Suffering?
As published on Mad in America Of all the labels placed on me throughout my 20 years as a consumer in the psychiatric industry,…