Clown Hospital

My friend Sarah joins me and she is not afraid to admit that capitalism is the problem with unions.

My friend Ham joins me to discuss alienation under capitalism, the ways we've internalized capitalist brain worms, and the plight of dog walkers.

My friend Sarah joins me to discuss psilocybin in recovery! If you like the show consider buying us a coffee ko-fi.com/clownhospitalpod

My new friend Chen joins me to discuss finding spirituality while living in a world where Christianity is used as justification for oppression.

My friend Holly joins me to talk shit on Temple University. Find Holly's Work Here: https://holly-genovese.com/ hollz.substack.com Further Reading: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/15/us/harvard-kilburn-therapy-records.html?unlocked_article_code=4_Oe64xOenPbLjV5g15ogNUaJickHYQb4z5vI7moRxRzdmVHG5Vjjbe2NRhRqZ-BCqE9UsctXPoA7F02obISyYYdM1a35JoVtiYz2nC3bXmYJG0xbovP0eihJ1fJ68JXwrb3O8gokhsVwCgtCRWvFSz7k5YDjKnISJbmWQdXp7FrpM445c6PmZdEN8PcvnSDOOVHcQhsDlX5luUMyUaKoGyVKZsiQSPffCLBG5jeNg9q2kTaf4nWR7HwCmddK0d4GMfTdu9sOSjnQuQMGEc7AQD48KRlD3k-5I4FLWUXQoNQIvmybW8LEDIEkWPTRFcoPbYUDKa_mGbBSAZNkLUt6m3q1aU&smid=share-url https://www.reddit.com/r/Professors/comments/v678un/having_due_dates_is_now_ableist_ableism_and_the/

My friend Chelsea joins to me to discuss finding spirituality through community after a childhood of abuse.

My friend Zach joins me to talk about dark humor and boot prints in the mud.

My new friend Bill joins to me talk about the healing power of threesomes.

Ariana returns to tell us about experiencing and healing from medical trauma. Further reading/watching mentioned on the show Medical Apartheid by Harriet Washington https://bookshop.org/books/medical-apartheid-the-dark-history-of-medical-experimentation-on-black-americans-from-colonial-times-to-the-present-9781799991380/9780767915472 Aftershock directed by Tonya Lewis Lee and Paula Eiselt

My friend Cammy returns to discuss the social disposability of people with long covid! Editor's note: On this one we talk about there being 3,000 covid deaths a day when it was more like 3000 a week at time of recording, which is still plenty Not Good! Check out more of Cammy at Cammy's Well! https://cammys-well.ghost.io/

My tall friend Stevi from DHREAM joins me to talk about harm reduction organizing and outreach. Learn more about DHREAM at https://linktr.ee/dhream

For my most vulnerable Clown Hospital yet, my ex partner and current friend Rebekeh joins me to talk about that time I did drugs. Please donate to our friend Serene's housing stability fund! https://www.gofundme.com/f/serenes-safety-stability-fund?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_campaign=p_cf+share-flow-1

My new friend Adryan joins me to talk about the practice of and history behind harm reduction regarding substance use. Further Reading https://filtermag.org/testosterone-criminalization/ https://www.teenvogue.com/story/420-marijuana-suspend-expel-black-brown-teens https://truthout.org/articles/even-when-marijuana-is-legal-young-people-are-locked-up-for-it/?fbclid=IwAR0YQ8HeiL68pss__aVf9u5j0LdO_HPLsudwviCSBWvSoCiFgIoTbJzfRYE https://harmreduction.org/about-us/principles-of-harm-reduction/ https://filtermag.org/eating-disorder-harm-reduction/ https://www.changingthenarrative.news/harm-reduction https://untorellipress.noblogs.org/post/2013/03/12/street-transvestite-action-revolutionaries-survival-revolt-and-queer-antagonist-struggle/ https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/opioids/responding-canada-opioid-crisis/safer-supply.html https://www.crackdownpod.com/episodes https://www.indigenousaction.org/voting-is-not-harm-reduction-an-indigenous-perspective/ https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/10/14/liberalism-and-fascism-partners-in-crime/

My friend Angel (spun.lilac on instagram) joins me to talk about the myth that one needs to suffer to make good art, specifically in the context of famous u-haul lesbian Kurt Cobain.

My friend Sie (sieob4recovery on tiktok) joins me to talk about finding transition, art, and meaning in recovery.

My friend Norn (norn_corporeal on insta) returns to rank all the DBT acronyms by uh.... acronymity.

My new friend Ariana joins me to commiserate about burning out of the Social Work field!

Frank returns to review our psych ward stays!

My friends G and Geoff join me to discuss our time in SMART Recovery!

my friend Jenell joins me to talk about songs about birds.

My friend Maria joins me to talk ableism in social work.

My friend Alyssa joins me to welcome you to our twisted letterboxd profiles.

My friend Birdie joins me to talk how working conditions impact services provided.

My friend Tara joins me in the Clown Hospital to discuss writing as a tool in mental health management.

My friend Danielle joins me to talk shit on Human Resources

My friends Emily and Geoff join me to discuss the nature, or nurture, of addiction and teens finding weird ass ways to get high.

My friend Angel returns to discuss committing sicko behavior in the name of love.

My friend Hugo joins me to discuss being trans in treatment and recovery fellowships while saying a lot of the slurs that we have earned the right to say.

My friend Cammy joins me to discuss navigating the disposability of trans women.

My friend G joins me to talk about navigating relationships in recovery.

My friend Frank joins me to talk about dual diagnosis and The Holy Trinity of Drugs Gay People Like.

My friend Meg joins me to discuss the pros and cons of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.

My friend Pierce joins me to talk about lexapro, accessing and using mental health resources, and DIY music.

My friend Nino jacks into the net with me to discuss the benefits and limits of the internet as a tool in recovery.

My friend Tara joins me to discuss loving detachment from those we love and unloving detachment from war criminal Henry Kissinger.

My friend Norn joins me to talk DBT and TIPP and blows me way with the DBT lifehacks. Norn's etsy shop can be found at https://www.etsy.com/shop/nornnoszka Transcription for the episode can found at clownhospitalpod.wordpress.com

My friend "Jeff" joins me to discuss the benefit of focusing on hobbies in recovery and the barriers to hobbies under capitalism. A transcript of this episode is available on clownhospitalpod.wordpress.com

My friend Alyssa (@bitchdruid on twitter and instagram) joins me to graphically portray life with OCD, managing mental health with marijuana in a mindful way, and smoking up her grandmother's ghost. Unfortunately I lost the transcript for this episode and I don't know how I will ever process that loss.

Angel (spun.lilac on ig) joins me to discuss the benefits and messiness of sharing community with other traumatized people. A transcript for this episode can be found at clownhospitalpod.wordpress.com

This episode contains discussion of genetic racism, mistreatment of autistic people, and eugenics. My friend Emily joins me to talk about what we can learn about our mental health from genetics as well as the limits of this information and the perspectives it can provide. A transcription of this episode can be found at clownhospitalpod.wordpress.com

Welcome to my new mental health podcast, Clown Hospital, where we will be talking about how mental health recovery skills and resources fit into our real lives. I hope you will join us for our first episode this Tuesday at 1. A transcript for this episode can be found at clownhopsitalpod.wordpress.com