Posted in uncategorized on May 15, 2008 | No Comments »
I went to Ladyfest last weekend and it was awesome! While there I met an absolutely wonderful woman who was one of the founders of Mad Chicks. From their site:
Mad Chicks is a new movement, which focuses on issues specific to women mental health service users, using creativity to achieve our aims and attract attention [...]
Posted in uncategorized, tagged Links, site design on May 15, 2008 | No Comments »
Hi everyone
Hope the redesign is ok for people - everything that was there still is, there’s just a tag cloud now and a personalised image.
I’ve started the Links list, but if anyone else knows of other useful feminist sites, or just those related to mental health, please comment with the url.
Equally, if there’s [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bonkersfest 2008, Liz Spikol on May 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Sorry if anyone’s already posted this, but I’ve been reading more about mental health acceptance, or ‘Mad Pride’, groups in the US, and through this great article about Liz Spikol et al, I found out about this:
BonkersFest! 2008 ‘De-normalisation: The next civil rights movement?’
Date: Saturday 7th June 2008
Location: London (at the old site of Bedlam!) [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Well, I finally finished my lil zine/booklet type thing. It’s called The Junkbox Diaries. I made it from a load of old diary pages coupled with my comments on what was going on for me last year. It’s very short and poorly photocopied (and on one copy, the pages are stapled in the wrong order) [...]
Posted in uncategorized on April 7, 2008 | No Comments »
Hi everyone,
I know I haven’t posted in a while about the running. It’s largely down to getting badly behind on my work for uni. I’m not sure how much I’ll be able to do this week (my two 5000 word essays are due in on Monday 14th, after which there will be much drinking) but [...]
Posted in uncategorized, tagged depression on March 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
As an introduction to some of my own experiences with mental health problems in the past I thought I’d share with you some autobiographical writing that I did in early 2006, when I ended up being off work for 3 months with depression.In the future I would like to share some of my experiences with [...]
Posted in uncategorized on March 10, 2008 | 3 Comments »
When I first put the call out for this blog several of the women interested in contributing emailed me saying something along the lines of “I don’t talk about my mental health on my feminist blog because I don’t think anyones interested” or “I don’t know how people will react to it”
I think we [...]
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