It’s the great paradox of our time: poverty makes us more susceptible to mental illness, while affluence drives us to depression. Exploring these topics and many more, Briarpatch takes a fresh and fearless look at the state of our mental health in an age of growing inequality.
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features
101 Things to Do Before You Die
An Interview with Kate Bornstein
Tracey Mitchell discusses tame & extreme alternatives to suicide with gender outlaw Kate Bornstein.
The Social Sources of Madness
by J.F. Conway
There’s clear evidence linking poverty and the onset of mental illness. So why have governments been ignoring it for so long?
Ideas, Dreams, Struggle & Vision
An interview with Tania Willard
Briarpatch talks to Vancouver artist Tania Willard about the “Crazymaking” exhibit of art by young First Nations artists.
“Le Monde a Bicyclette
by Mike Ford
Canadian folk musician Mike Ford pays tribute to the legacy of activist Tooker Gomberg.
Buying Happiness
by Peter Dodson
Having more stuff doesn’t make us any happier.
The Journey Back to Where I Began
by Stanford Sinclair
Adopted into a white family at the age of one, First Nations author Stanford Sinclair makes peace with the past.
departments
letter from this issue’s editors
Darning the social fabric
letters to the editor
The last word on poetry, ideas for billboard liberation, a bad joke blows up in Briarpatch’s face, & more!
reviews
Psyched Out: Why Bush’s mental health isn’t the point
Tracey Mitchell reviews three books on the mind of the man with his finger on the trigger.
Sounding the Pharma Alarm
Angela Bischoff samples four accounts of the rise of the pharmaceutical industry.
quotes from the underground
parting shots
I, Mutant: Learning to use my dangerous gifts
by Sascha Scatter
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