Visualizes the breath cycle with abstracted imagery of Black revolts and sun cycles. Part of a larger series of work balancing historical and community research of injustice with personal and collective care for restorative energy.
A.E.H. lists strategies she uses on a day-to-day basis to help manage her anxiety. She discusses different forms of meditation and ways to break up and manage chunks of time. She emphasizes that she uses the techniques in conjunction with psychiatric treatment and medication. This cut and paste zine is printed on colored pages.
A "queer, fat, white, cis femme with invisible disabilities," shares her experiences with discrimination. She mentions strangers mistaking her as pregnant, feeling uncomfortable in bathroom stalls and church pews, eating in public, using the subway system, and accessibility for fat people.
A feminist minicomic about a woman attempting to cope with her anxieties using various strategies (eating a pear in the sun, growing a basil plant). She discovers the source of her anxiety is being a woman. After being magically transformed into a man and peeing on the world, her anxieties disappear.
Just the phrase 'hop on the scale for me' can cause anxiety, even in people who don't identify as fat or don't have an above-average BMI. These are some of the strategies I've learned to self-advocate over the years.
Magical Art Therapy is an ongoing collection of sigils-or magical images-that use a symbolic visual language inspired by nature, mythology, and occult practices like alchemy and the tarot to address topics related to mental illness, trauma, and surviving in an unkind world.
An overview of the symptoms of psychopathy and a history of its diagnosis, beginning from the origin of the term in 1888 by German psychiatrist J.L.A Koch, to Dr. Hervey Cleckley's re-definition in 1941, to the Hare psychopath checklist developed by Robert Hare in the 1970s, to modern brain imaging techniques.
Part sci-fi adventure, part irreverent fable, this project comes to life as a time travelers playbook. The reader is invited to become collaborator and log their explorations and findings along-side the authors.
"This publication will serve to air a variety of alternative views on mental illness, mental health treatment, and most especially personal life experience with your own issues and/or with the system." -- Issue #1, p. 2.
