Tag: Mental Health
Indigenous suicide crisis in Canada: New StatsCan research provides deeper picture
An in-depth article I wrote for National Observer, published Sept. 10 for World Suicide Prevention Day. I also recently published a short video of Dr. Roland Chrisjohn discussing his book Dying To Please You: Indigenous Suicide in Contemporary Canada
Sarah Blyth interview on the Overdose Crisis (AUDIOS)
Sarah Blyth, executive director of the Vancouver Overdose Prevention Society, explains what’s needed to address the rising epidemic of overdose…
PODCAST: Anti-Black sanism in the police killing of Abdirahman Abdi, and more broadly
A half-hour interview with Idil, board chair of Across Boundaries mental health centre in Toronto, on race and mental health…
Counterbalance – zine on Activism & Mental Health
“What Sustains Us? What Stops Us?” An exploration and conversation starter on how we meld our activist lives, our political…
Psychovariant Belonging – a poem and appendix
This appendixed poem on mental health and belonging was written for / originally published in the astrological PlanetWaves.net 2015 annual…
Film Review: The Inmates Are Running The Asylum
Film Review: The Inmates Are Running the Asylum By Greg Macdougall Set in the time of mass de-institutionalization of…
Beyond Access: Mia Mingus on Disability Justice (video interview)
“Disability Justice work is … new in the sense that we’re building the shared political framework and shared language, so…