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Two decades of writing for Bay Area street newspapers

By Jack Bragen on March 4, 2025
First-person   Opinion
‘When someone is living in the margins, being published matters...’

Post-election shock and it’s effect on one psychotic man

By Jack Bragen on January 6, 2025
First-person   Opinion
This seems very Orwellian, and worse.

Neurodivergent people have limited options for supportive care

By Jack Bragen on October 7, 2024
First-person   Opinion
"Survival, if we have to do it alone, is not easy, and it is not getting easier. "

Learning to live with voices and finding community in sharing them

By Dusk Delacour on September 5, 2024
First-person   Opinion
"The mental health community has so many different experiences, and we are stronger together and less alone when we learn about others and invite them to learn about us."

Life with cognitive differences

By Jack Bragen on August 5, 2024
First-person   Opinion
"...we need more people to understand that even though we may be suffering from an illness, we are not 'less than,' but people just like them."

Emerging from psychosis is like a revelation

By Jack Bragen on November 8, 2021
First-person   Opinion
Jack Bragen writes about the experience of emerging from a period of psychosis, using his own experience as a guide.

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By Jordan Singh on January 1, 2020
Arts and Culture   Poetry
Skating through the city alone Or a-gangPushing on my board is my own paradeTo take a rest, sparkit to ease



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