a mental health and music project
What a better time to start posting again on the only sound than the month of May, Mental Health Awareness Month. May, the month when the United States can collectively recognize through the means of posting, sharing, retweeting and regurgitating on social media the importance of maintaining the hygiene of one’s brain. May, the month… Continue reading the awareness illusion
Happy Another-Shaping-Up-To-Be-A-Full-On-Catastrophically-Historic New Year. We’re not even two weeks into 2021, and action is already being taken on what’s long been ignored this year. I found myself at the start of the new year binge watching the work-from-home performance Phoebe Bridgers did of her song “Kyoto” for The Late Late Show with James Corden. This… Continue reading the things we put off
Growing up, my mom and I did a lot of holiday shopping together. We would pop from one brightly lit, frenetic department store to another. With gift giving as our love language, my mother and I feel most like ourselves and suspect we were injected with some merry saline solution in our sleep during this… Continue reading why christmas music is going to thrive in 2020
I’ve been running on steam.We’ve all been running on steam.And now? Steam? I hardly know her.I’m keeping this short. I debated posting at all, but in an alley-oop fashion, I felt compelled to to stress the importance of rest. No matter who you are, you’ve worked hard this year. Whether you have been on the… Continue reading rest and relief
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
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
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