Continue Reading... Indigenous suicide crisis in Canada: New StatsCan research provides deeper picture
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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

Continue Reading... Sarah Blyth interview on the Overdose Crisis (AUDIOS)
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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…

Continue Reading... Addressing the Epidemic Crises of Indigenous Suicide in Canada [with PDF, Audio, Video, Resources]
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Addressing the Epidemic Crises of Indigenous Suicide in Canada [with PDF, Audio, Video, Resources]

Continue Reading... PODCAST: Anti-Black sanism in the police killing of Abdirahman Abdi, and more broadly
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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…

Continue Reading... Counterbalance – zine on Activism & Mental Health
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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…

Continue Reading... Psychovariant Belonging – a poem and appendix
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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…

Continue Reading... Film Review: The Inmates Are Running The Asylum
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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…

Continue Reading... Beyond Access: Mia Mingus on Disability Justice (video interview)
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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…