Archive for July, 2012
Batman Returns: How Culture Shapes Muddle Into Madness | Wired Science | Wired.com.
“Schizophrenia doubles your odds of becoming violent, but being a man multiplies your risk by a factor of nine. Yet we don’t stigmatize or reject men for this “risk factor”; similarly, we shouldn’t treat the mentally ill that way either. To prevent future catastrophes, we need to understand the range of cultural, social and medical factors that affect us all.” ~ Maia Szalavitz, Mass murder and mental illness: The Interplay of stigma, culture and disease / Time.com
poor as I am,
I can still brew a pot
of pine-needle tea
Karma Tenzing Wangchuk
from Shelter / Street (2010)
‘No.3’, My Linear Heart Series, © Stasja Voluti 2012, self-portrait, digital c-print
Surrealism in Text and Image: A Conversation » Meta-Talon » Talonbooks.