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Latest Posts
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The Shape of Care: Art, Stigma, and Survival
An Artist Talk and ConversationSaturday, May 16th | 2:00PM CoLab Arts | New Brunswick, NJ Join us for an artist talk and conversation around Resonance,…
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Echo Thread Books | Poets & Storytellers Open Interview
“I really feel like the work I’m trying to do is from whatever grief I can hold that I can be with, that’s my…
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Special Screening and Panel: Woman of the Stars and Mountains
Join us on Wednesday, March 18th at 7pm for a presentation of an extraordinary film. You can do so online, or you can join us…
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Co-Arting | Individual & Group
Making art with someone who understands the power of the visual journey to transform stuck feelings, energies, beliefs, and to move blocks towards more…
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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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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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Creativity and COVID: A Lived Experience Perspective
Featured image by Monique Jacobs, title: Crazy Mind Mouth Shut
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Everyone’s Afraid of an Angry Woman: Honoring Sinéad O’Connor
There is one thing about having been a “delinquent” teen, or a “freak” as we called ourselves, in the chaos of the early 90s…
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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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Art and Transformation: Creating Justice in Mental Health
In this MIA Radio podcast, I interview the curator of the Disruption Network Lab’s conference Madness: Fighting for Justice in Mental Health, Elena Veljanovska,…
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Loss, Grief, and Betrayal: Psychiatric Survivors Reflect on the Impact of New Serotonin Study
By Karin Jervert and Marnie Wedlake Loss, grief, and a sense of betrayal are felt deeply by many who have been affected by the…
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Small Art Show At Small World
I wanted to share some images and the artist statement from my recent show at a local coffee shop. Just took it down Tuesday.…
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Too Young For that Much Terror
About My Site’s Former Logo I wanted to share about the evolution of the artwork on the header of my site. The pieces I’ve…
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The Song of Psychiatry: The Impact of Language
As a young woman, I believed the story I was told and internalized the language of the psychiatric system. The story it told, the…
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#SurvivingPsychiatry Playlist
Feel like taking a musical journey of #survivingpsychiatry? If you have Apple Music, you can listen here. Or recreate the playlist on any of…
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Sound and Psychiatry | Gegen Diagnose – Sound Piece
Spoken word poem with sounds remembered from a mental hospitalization.
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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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For My Friend & Those With Chronic Illness
When the years of life are piling up and the suffering has found no end, yet. What god-forsaken thing inside of us keeps us…
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What We Have Always Known but Psychiatry Forgot
When I came off my last medication, my psychiatrist said to me, “You will get sick again.” Psychiatry has always been sure of one…
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Talk: Creativity and COVID: A Lived Experience Perspective
Creativity and COVID: A Lived Experience Perspective” at the Alternatives 2021 Conference. July 10, 2021 at 12PM EST. The Alternatives conference continues on the…
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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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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,…
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Lightning Bugs
As published in audio on Litro Lab Podcasts When we were kids, my brother and I waited for the sun to set, for the…