Happy Monday REVOLUTIONARIES!!! We're really excited to share a new project a couple of us have been dreaming up!
The idea for The Mental Health Mash-Up came up for Skye and me as we were talking about the complicated intersection of being bodies, brains, hearts and spirits in this big, beautiful and sometimes chaotic world.
We wanted to explore the way we understand, experience and talk about mental health, how this is seen through the lens of our queerness and how our queerness is seen through the lens of mental health.
We wanted a place where we could discuss the struggles and complexities of being queer so we could honor how it affects our well-being and our access and understanding of "being well" in positive and negative ways.
We wanted to have a place for community dialogue and process where we could sit down, have a cup a coffee and... just figure stuff out together.
Thus, The Mental Health Mashup was born! This podcast is part information, discussion, healing circle and support and process group and we'd love to hear from you! Leave us a comment or send us an email if you'd like to get involved, have a topic/question or just want to let us know that you're out there in the universe, a big mash-up of body, brain, heart and spirit, trying to make it through this rough and tumble journey of life!
Enjoy our first episode!
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Mental Health Mash-Up Ep. 1: Gendered Expectations + The Self-Made Man
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Episode Description
Join Skye + Traci as they kick off the Monday Morning Mental Health Mashup with Episode 1: Gendered Expectations + The Self Made Man.
The COM|PASSionate REVOLT team is gearing up to run two workshops at The Trans* Asterisk Conference at UC Riverside, Feb 27-28, 2015! This is the 2nd annual occurence of this conference which seeks to address issues of trans* health, well being and to provide resources for trans* youth and advocates. Follow the link for details and registration.
In this episode Skye and Traci will discuss the objective of their workshop, titled Taming the Hulk: Temperance for the Transmasculine Journey, which aims to deconstruct the intersection between gendered expectations and the creation of identity for transmasculine individuals by looking at:
- The exploration and uncovering of one's most authentic masculine identity
- The complications of how "passing" and one's attachment to passing fits into this identity
- How to integrate what the world tells us about ourselves with the men we see ourselves to be
We hope you enjoy and we'd love to hear your thoughts!
You can reach us at compassionaterevolt@gmail.com
www.compassionaterevolt.wordpress.com
In COM|PASSionate REVOLUTION,
Skye + Traci