Clown Hospital

Bill returns to welcome you to our twisted minds. Bill's Movie Rec's: Lady Vengeance, Hard Candy, Last House on the Left, Mandy, Tales from the Hood Sadie Pile of Vengeance Books: They Never Learn, Lucky Red, Eva's Man TV: Sweet/Vicious, Bad Sisters Movies: Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts, Revenge, A Question of Silence, Ms 45, Eva's Man, Thelma and Louise, The Match Factory Girl

Brooke joins me to plan our own funerals.

My friend Faye joins me to discuss the horrors of applying for disability income in the US.

My friend Adryan returns to talk about building relationships under capitalism and covid. Check out their substack here! https://adryancorcione.substack.com/

My new friend Holly joins me to talk about apologies and Moms for Liberty

My friend Jack joins me to discuss psych units and the surefire way to get out of them: unionizing.

Frank joins me to get stoned and talk shit on the program that tells us not to get stoned.

Brooke returns to talk compound grief, acute grief, and how we can better support each other through grief.

My friend Brooke joins me to discuss maintaining connections with those we've loss and how the world is just a few thousand people being shuffled around.

My friend Sarah joins me and she is not afraid to admit that capitalism is the problem with unions. 

My friend Ham joins me to discuss alienation under capitalism, the ways we've internalized capitalist brain worms, and the plight of dog walkers.  

My friend Sarah joins me to discuss psilocybin in recovery!  If you like the show consider buying us a coffee ko-fi.com/clownhospitalpod

My new friend Chen joins me to discuss finding spirituality while living in a world where Christianity is used as justification for oppression. 

My friend Holly joins me to talk shit on Temple University.  Find Holly's Work Here: https://holly-genovese.com/ hollz.substack.com Further Reading: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/15/us/harvard-kilburn-therapy-records.html?unlocked_article_code=4_Oe64xOenPbLjV5g15ogNUaJickHYQb4z5vI7moRxRzdmVHG5Vjjbe2NRhRqZ-BCqE9UsctXPoA7F02obISyYYdM1a35JoVtiYz2nC3bXmYJG0xbovP0eihJ1fJ68JXwrb3O8gokhsVwCgtCRWvF...

My friend Chelsea joins to me to discuss finding spirituality through community after a childhood of abuse. 

My friend Zach joins me to talk about dark humor and boot prints in the mud.

My new friend Bill joins to me talk about the healing power of threesomes. 

Ariana returns to tell us about experiencing and healing from medical trauma. Further reading/watching mentioned on the show Medical Apartheid by Harriet Washington https://bookshop.org/books/medical-apartheid-the-dark-history-of-medical-experimentation-on-black-americans-from-colonial-times-to-the-present-9781799991380/9780767915472 Aftershock directed by Tonya Lewis Lee and Paula Eiselt

My friend Cammy returns to discuss the social disposability of people with long covid! Editor's note: On this one we talk about there being 3,000 covid deaths a day when it was more like 3000 a week at time of recording, which is still plenty Not Good! Check out more of Cammy at Cammy's Well! https://cammys-well.ghost.io/

My tall friend Stevi from DHREAM joins me to talk about harm reduction organizing and outreach. Learn more about DHREAM at https://linktr.ee/dhream

For my most vulnerable Clown Hospital yet, my ex partner and current friend Rebekeh joins me to talk about that time I did drugs.  Please donate to our friend Serene's housing stability fund! https://www.gofundme.com/f/serenes-safety-stability-fund?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_campaign=p_cf+share-flow-1

My new friend Adryan joins me to talk about the practice of and history behind harm reduction regarding substance use.  Further Reading https://filtermag.org/testosterone-criminalization/ https://www.teenvogue.com/story/420-marijuana-suspend-expel-black-brown-teens https://truthout.org/articles/even-when-marijuana-is-legal-young-people-are-locked-up-for-it/?fbclid=IwAR0YQ8HeiL68pss__aVf9u5j0L...

My friend Angel (spun.lilac on instagram) joins me to talk about the myth that one needs to suffer to make good art, specifically in the context of famous u-haul lesbian Kurt Cobain. 

My friend Sie (sieob4recovery on tiktok) joins me to talk about finding transition, art, and meaning in recovery. 

My friend Norn (norn_corporeal on insta) returns to rank all the DBT acronyms by uh.... acronymity.