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I spent the day working on the book that was due to the publisher last year for which I got a medical extension, so a productive day.
Writing about women, suicide & madness for several hours is both compelling and unsettling, however.
Calling women crazy has such a long history.
Writing about women, suicide & madness for several hours is both compelling and unsettling, however.
Calling women crazy has such a long history.
Linen strait jacket by Agnes Richter, a seamstress who was incarcerated in an Austrian asylum during the late 1800′s and who embroidered her life story onto the jacket as an attempt to regain her identity
via @womensart1
via @womensart1
Imagine the dexterity and drive it took for Agnes Richter to tell her story.
Imagine how many women deemed "mad" never had the opportunity to tell theirs.
Imagine how many women deemed "mad" never had the opportunity to tell theirs.
