Culture
Stories on the intersection of mental health and culture.
🗝️Sanity Classics: Empathy be damned
Why you need to worry about the rise of the 'empathy industrial complex'
'Plizzz say my name!'
Feel lonely and unseen? Have you tried sending a Super Chat to your favourite YouTuber?
Brain rot is the word of the year. Meh.
Tell me something new.
Freethink Friday: Edition 1 | What do you have in common with therapists?
I'll go first: Here's what journalists and therapists have in common.
A campaign is asking tech companies to stop treating people's names as typos
That squiggly red line under your name can harm your mental health. A group of volunteers in the UK is fighting back.
🗝️ Sanity Classics: How to survive mental health's civil war
Is therapy culture making us sick?
Research shows trigger warnings can do more harm than good. But it's more complicated than that.
Time to say goodbye to a staple of the (liberal, progressive) internet? Not so fast.
🗝️ Sanity Classics: The 'idiots' fight back. Or, why being incurious is awesome.
What's the relationship between curiosity, colonialism, and 'idiocy'?
Maybe you can't save them. But you can keep their stories safe.
To me, a story well told is about respect and healing.
What's the story of that sweater your grandma knitted for you?
How repetitive tasks like knitting help heal trauma.
An apology for joy
You are allowed to laugh.
Ambition, dangerous darling
A personal and cultural history of a complex word.