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Rethinking Mental Illness: Interview with Dr. Gavin Francis
In his chair at the clinic, Dr. Gavin Francis sees the mind as much less fragile than the rhetoric in our culture suggests.
Disability as a Plot Device in Tuner
How Tuner transforms disability into a cinematic superpower
We Year: A Love Letter to the Crip Community
An interview with film director Sop about art and chronic illness
Interview with John O’Connor: Magic Mushrooms and the Search for Meaning
A conversation with the author about today’s psychedelic renaissance
Obsession and “The Yellow Wallpaper”
The film highlights the peril of love that demands possession.
Embodiment as Performance: Anne Gridley’s Watch Me Walk
Anne Gridley transforms walking into defiant performance, confronting disability, discomfort, and rare disease awareness head-on.
Under the Skin, but Out of Focus: Bug on Broadway
Broadway revival of Tracy Letts’ Bug probes paranoia, race, and medical ethics.
Cinema Without Barriers: Disability, Creativity, and Comfort Intersect at RestFest
RestFest reimagines film festivals through disabled-led creativity, radical access, and care-centered viewing beyond ableist norms.
Flushing the Script: Madness, Medication, and Patriarchy in The Housemaid
A thriller about psychopharmaceuticals becomes a feminist meditation on madness, coercion, and resistance within patriarchal domestic spaces.
Achieving a Good Death: A Practical Guide to the End of Life by Chris Palmer
A candid, compassionate review explores how planning, autonomy, and honest conversations can transform dying into dignity.
When Artificial Intelligence Talks but Can’t Touch: Marjorie Prime
As anxieties about AI and mental health mount, a new Broadway drama confronts grief digitally today.