a mental health and music project
Did you register to vote yet? I hope so. You can make sure you're registered here. And then make a plan on how you're voting this year. Seriously.Part of the reason why I created this site is because I want there to be more, diverse perspectives and voices in mental health and music writing. I'm… Continue reading voting, submissions, logistics
"Fight for the things that you care about. But do it in a way that will lead others to join you.”- Ruth Bader GinsburgFeminist icon, Supreme Court judge, relentless fighter for equality, and, lest we forget, notorious Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on Friday. Like so many of us, I’ve become so calloused to breaking news… Continue reading women will get you through 2020
Every time I remember that it’s September I audibly breathe out. This year is speeding at slowing at the same pace at the same time. I’m tired of the country’s literal and figurative fires in the past six months...and just in the past.September has historically been a month for me of natural reinvention and heaviness.… Continue reading no one gets a suicide pass
There wasn’t a magazine in a grocery store or television channel that didn’t cover Britney Spears’s behavior during 2007 and 2008. Her “breakdown” - consisting of, but not limited to, checking in and out of a rehabilitation center for her mental health, shaving her head, and taking an umbrella to the window of a paparazzo's… Continue reading we failed britney
My Chemical Romance initially provided me with the strong sense of what music can bring out and say about my own mental health and identity. There are these safe places in music, where one only listens to the music that is both aligned with their current taste and doesn’t go beyond their perceived emotional tolerance… Continue reading wishes for frank
The first time I felt depressed was after I listened to My Chemical Romance’s “I Don’t Love You.” I became fully aware of an unexplainable ache. I was twelve.Since, music and my mental health have been inextricably linked. Hell, all my experiences are linked to and processed through music. I know I’m not the only… Continue reading an introduction to the through
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