Themed Months
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So You Want to Feel Better: Navigating Grad School, Disability, and the Language of Pain
The term “invisible disability” is commonly used to describe disabilities that are not readily apparent to the eye, but I want to push back on this term. When you pay close attention, most disabilities become visible. Poems are not encoded…
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A Disassembled Room
It certainly wasn’t part of my grand plan to keep an ashtray full of cigarette butts for eternity.
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What to Read When It’s Mental Health Awareness Month
The editors put together a list of books for Mental Health Awareness Month.
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The True Story of Six Misdiagnoses: The Rumpus Interview with Sarah Fay
Not all of us are going to heal well.
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The Dark Mothers’ Club
I know all the hours intimately as any lover, the lucid high of four a.m. as familiar as the adrenaline drunk of noon.
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Positive Tension and Unstructured Time: A Conversation with Courtney Maum
. . . we wake up in human bodies every day and move forward with our lives, but every second of the day we’re thinking ahead, we’re thinking backward. Unfortunately, we’re rarely in the present time.
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Getting Through It & Charting the Edges
Welcome to our themed “issue” for Mental Health Awareness Month.