It is 2018 and if you don’t have a NYT best-selling book or a Youtube channel, you’re hosting a podcast. Without the production costs, network dependency, and scripted nature of television or film, podcasts have emerged as an inexpensive and reliable platform to discuss both humorous anecdotes and important issues for a niche audience. However, […]
Content Warning: mentions suicide. There is no coherent way to describe the Nine Inch Nails (NIN) album The Fragile, the third studio album from the Trent Reznor-led industrial band. Some moments transcend an attack on the senses; they tear them to shreds and leave you scrambling to retrieve the remains. Other times you are sucked […]
In 1981, Justin Fashanu became the first ever black football player to be sold for over £1 million when he transferred from Norwich to Nottingham Forest. His fame and status increased exponentially and he continued to face significant attention from the media throughout his career, particularly regarding his sexuality. Fashanu came out to the press […]
In the contemporary perception of extraordinary artistry, it seems that the question of what is older – the history of music or the history of mental illness – has almost become the chicken and the egg conundrum. Even more radically in the eyes of the general public and media, they are essentially the same. This […]
Marina Diamandis, best known as Marina and the Diamonds, has undoubtedly sat at the forefront of destigmatising mental health in popular culture, with her first two albums expressing concerns around mental health. These themes are explicit in Electra Heart’s ‘Teen Idle’ which expresses thoughts on eating disorders and depression, and her third album, Froot, which […]
In an ideal society, no one suffering from mental illness would ever feel unsupported or abandoned, especially considering the fact that one quarter of us will experience a mental health problem every year. However, the realities of our 21st-century situation raised the issue of men’s mental health at the ‘Introduction to Men’s Mental Health’ talk […]