A poem to honour the dead Photo by Ilie Barna  on Unsplash In the caverns of memory not far from the smiles and exuberance of dancing youth, an image of you smiles in grayscale hues, fresh faced and hair curled—captive to a history  which fears above all else to make itself known. When you were gone, your memory became our pain. We didn’t know  what you were, so we bleached your clothes and stitched in labels which caricatured your humanity as disease—an attempt to conceal th

The generational legacy of a psychiatric diagnosis Photo by Cosmin Gurau  on Unsplash Beyond the Label: The first time my aunt tried to end her life was on the day before I was born. When my father told me this a few months ago, it was like coming home to a lost part of myself, as if the context surrounding my birth suddenly explained the loss I had felt from my first moments in the world. Six years later, when she finally succeeded, her death sent shock waves through my fami