All Write in Sin City
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All Write in Sin City
Psych Murders with Stephanie Heit
Trigger Warning: Stephanie Heit speaks and writes courageously and frankly about her own mental health issues and treatments, which included ECT shock therapy.
Stephanie Heit is a queer disabled poet, dancer, teacher, and codirector of Turtle Disco, a somatic writing space. She is a psych system/shock survivor, bipolar, a mad activist, Zoeglossia Fellow, and a member of Olimpias, a disability performance collective. She lives in Ypsilanti, Michigan, on Three Fires Confederacy territory and is the author of the poetry collection The Color She Gave Gravity. Her new book, Psych Murders, is a collection of experimental writing. It takes readers inside psychiatric wards and shock treatments toward new futures of mental health care.
https://stephanie-heit.com/books-psych-murders/
Our colleague Irene Moore Davis could not join Kim and Sarah for this episode recording.