Image: Edi McGurk.
On Sunday 6th August award-winning writer, journalist and campaigner Micha Frazer-Carroll is coming to The Railway Inn, Winchester to disrupt the mainstream mental health conversation and talk about her new book – Mad World: The Politics Of Mental Health (Pluto Press).
Mental health affects us all, and yet it remains elusive as a concept. Does getting a diagnosis help or hinder? How is mental wellbeing, which is often incredibly personal, driven by widespread societal suffering? Can it be a social construct and real at the same time?
These are some of the big questions Micha Frazer-Carroll explores in her Mad World book and will be discussing in Winchester at her talk for Wire Wool Events.
Micha Frazer-Carroll is a London-based writer invested in using journalism to challenge systems of power. She has previously edited for gal-dem, the Guardian and Blueprint, a mental health magazine that she founded. Micha has also written for Vogue, HuffPost, Huck and Dazed. She was nominated for the Comment Awards’ Fresh New Voice of the Year Award, and the Observer/Anthony Burgess Award for Arts Criticism
In this talk Micha Frazer-Carroll discusses mental health as a political issue, and presents a radical and hopeful antidote to pathologisation, gatekeeping and the policing of imagination.
Micha Frazer-Caroll says “My work centres around the theme of liberation. I am most interested in the politics of race, gender and disability, also exploring how they relate to culture… It’s time to reclaim our mental health!”
- Sunday 6th August 2023 – 6.45pm doors, 7pm start. Upstairs at The Railway, Winchester, 45min talk, followed by opportunity for audience questions. Price: £8 from www.wirewoolevents.com. Limited tickets available. This event is a donation point for The Homeless Period – please bring toiletries, tampons and towels if you are able. Win a copy of Micha Frazer-Carroll’s book ‘Mad World’ in the raffle – proceeds go to START.
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