We’ve curated some of society’s best voices, opinions, activism, and scholarship, and highlighting the narratives of mental health and creativity in our culture.
Ellen Desmond reflects on the lack of knowledge about how female and queer bodies interact with mental health, and provides a list of books she found helpful in educating herself about issues that affect her and her peers, including PMDD, PME, PMS, endometriosis, and the interactions between the mind and contraceptives.
We spoke to Craig Henderson who runs Craig’s Barber Shop in Bolton, UK which is an affiliate safe place of The Lions Barber Collective, a male suicide prevention and mental health awareness charity. Craig is trained and ready to listen to customers in need, and his shop is a relaxed, modern-themed unisex barbers, that is LGBT+ friendly.
Ellen Desmond meets with Nathaniel Kunitsky of Knight Errant Press to discuss all things gender non-conforming, mental health support for NB and trans people and their anthology F, M or Other: Quarrels with the Gender Binary.
Ellen Desmond discusses the ideas we have of success and failure with writer Ely Percy, ahead of the release of their new novel Vicky Romeo Plus Joolz.
The Ampersand Project chats to Annie Rew Shaw about all things creativity, change, and self-care.
Ampersand speaks to Shannia Richardson-Gordon, a coach at Boxing Futures and part of the Lucozade Sport Movers List, about helping others through sport.
A round up of our favourite podcasts, all of which deal, in some form or fashion, with mental health, and how we can go about managing ours.
We spoke to feminist pioneer Talat Yaqoob, asking for her hot takes intersectionality, self-care, and female empowerment.
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