“What is it to take care of yourself? Getting paid? Getting laid? Getting married? Getting pregnant? Fighting for visibility in your market? Realising your potential? Being healthy, being clean, not making a fool of yourself, not hurting yourself? Shaving in all the right places? What am I taking care of?” – Jenny Hval So what …
I’ve been thinking a lot about the language we use around mental health, and whether the way we describe mental health is reflective of people’s experience, or if instead it tells us more about the way society defines people. The way we think of mental health and specific ‘disorders’ have changed quite significantly over time, …
The main thing I took from studying Sociology at college was to question where information comes from. Why is this person or organisation telling me this, and why now? What are their motives? I think about this when reading the news, listening to official government narratives, when hearing clients’ stories, when reading fiction, and even …