Headcase: LGBTQ Writers & Artists on Mental Health and Wellness PDF
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Headcase Headcase LGBTQ Writers and Artists on Mental Health and Wellness Edited by Stephanie Schroeder and Teresa Theophano 1 1 Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and certain other countries. Published in the United States of America by Oxford University Press 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016, United States of America. © Oxford University Press 2019 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, by license, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reproduction rights organization. Inquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above. You must not circulate this work in any other form and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer. Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data Names: Schroeder, Stephanie, editor. | Theophano, Teresa, editor. Title: Headcase : LGBTQ writers and artists on mental health and wellness / edited by Stephanie Schroeder, Teresa Theophano. Description: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019] | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2018020915 (print) | LCCN 2018024432 (ebook) | ISBN 9780190846602 (updf) | ISBN 9780190846619 (epub) | ISBN 9780190846596 (hardback) Subjects: LCSH: Sexual minorities— Mental health. | Gender identity— Psychological aspects. | BISAC: MEDICAL / Mental Health. Classification: LCC RC451.4.G39 (ebook) | LCC RC451.4.G39 H43 2019 (print) | DDC 616.890086/6 —d c23 LC record available at https:// lccn.loc.gov/2 018020915 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 Printed by Sheridan Books, Inc., United States of America Contents Illustrations ix Foreword xi Kai Cheng Thom Acknowledgments xv Contributors xvii Introduction xxvii Stephanie Schroeder and Teresa Theophano Disclaimer xxxiii Part I: Conversations About Mental Health and Wellness 1. Falling Between the Cracks of Queer and Black 3 Tanisha Neely 2. Queer Affirmative Therapy 12 Arlene Istar Lev 3. Not All Wounds Are Visible 24 Louisa Hammond 4. Border/ Lines 26 Juan Antonio Trujillo 5. Sa Kanyang Sariling Mga Salita: Health, Identity, and Articulations of Self 38 Donald V. Brown, Jr., with Fidelindo A. Lim 6. Trust Me, I’m a Doctor 46 Lynn Breedlove 7. LGBTQ Substance Abuse and Mental Health Issues: A Provider’s Journey 50 Joseph Ruggiero v vi Contents 8. The Bone Crushing 54 Bill Konigsberg Part II: Stories of Survival 9. In Chiron’s Footsteps 61 Paula J. Williams 10. Not Our Fault 71 Chana Wilson 11. Figuring It Out Together: Mental Health Survival Strategies from Detroit’s Queer and Trans Youth of Color 80 Lance Hicks 12. Sisyphus (or: Rocks Fall and Everyone Dies) 88 J. R. Sullivan Voss 13. The Family Legacy Ends Here 101 Teresa Theophano 14. Roll the Dice 110 Michael Brown 15. Jesus and the Closets 112 Sara Zaanti 16. The Lived Experience of LGBT Veterans: Finding Support Within the VA Healthcare System 118 Kathryn Wagner Part III: Encounters of the Mad Kind 17. Psychiatry 127 Kate Millett 18. Surviving Science, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Being Mad and Queer 128 Calvin Rey Moen 19. Knowing Reynolds 139 Lucy Winer 20. On a Subway Platform, a Life Flashes— Here, Gone 149 Antoine B. Craigwell vii Contents 21. This Work Is About Digested Socks 156 Gabrielle Jordan Stein 22. Taming My Inner Fundamentalist 162 Kelly Barth 23. Fix Me Please: I’m Gay! 169 Guy Albert 24. Crowdsourcing My Antipsychotic 178 Stephanie Schroeder Part IV: Pushing Boundaries 25. On Listening to Clients, or Why Do Providers Sometimes Have a Hard Time Hearing What Recipients of Care Have to Say? 187 Christian Huygen 26. Problem Glyphs 195 Eliza Gauger 27. Erasure 202 Gabriella M. Belfiglio 28. Informed Consent 208 Asher J. Wickell 29. Bad Penny 213 J. M. Ellison 30. Liberating the Big Pink Elephant in the Therapy Room 219 Thomas Mondragon 31. GLEAM 231 Nikkiesha N. McLeod Part V: The Poetics of Mental Health and Wellness 32. Outlier: The Agoraphobia Fragments 249 Kevin Shaw 33. Were You Confused as a Child? 251 Stephen Mead 34. Pleasure- Based Parenting 253 Crista Anne viii Contents 35. Doctor Anonymous: A Play, and a Lesson in Medical Ethics 260 Guy Fredrick Glass 36. Jekyll’s Lover 265 James Penha 37. Feathers 268 Benjamin Klas Resources 271 Index 277 Illustrations 2.1 Dr. John Fryer (Dr. Henry Anonymous) with Frank Kameny and Barbara Gittings, 1972 APA Convention 14 3.1 “Not all wounds are visible,” by Lousia Hammond 25 12.1– 12.13 “Sisyphus (or: Rocks Fall and Everyone Dies),” a graphic diary by Sullivan Voss 88 17.1 “Psychiatry,” a photo by Kate Millett 127 21.1–2 1.5 “This Work Is About Digested Socks,” by Gabrielle Jordan Stein 157 26.1 “Baphomet’s Blessings” in “Problem Glyphs,” by Eliza Gauger 196 26.2 “Grace Amidst Monsters” in “Problem Glyphs,” by Eliza Gauger 197 26.3 “Half- Life” in “Problem Glyphs,” by Eliza Gauger 198 26.4 “Live Betwixt” in “Problem Glyphs,” by Eliza Gauger 199 26.5 “Mutatis Mutandis” in “Problem Glyphs,” by Eliza Gauger 200 26.6 “Sheela Na Gig” in “Problem Glyphs,” by Eliza Gauger 201 33.1 “Were You Confused as a Child?” by Stephen Mead 252 ix
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