Essay by Linda Fuglestad This year, 2022, Alyssum quietly, but proudly, celebrates 11 years of being here in Vermont as the first peer-hosted alternative holistic crisis intervention and respite! In doing this work, we have been happy to celebrate our ongoing...
Essay by Tanawat Luekr-u-suke Riding my bike and walking have always been a way for me to clear my thoughts and improve my attitude. Over time, long walks and bike rides became meditation sessions for me, allowing me to boost my mental health simply by making time to...
In April, the Burlington-based alt-weekly Seven Days published the following headline: “UVM Health Network Halts Badly Needed Psychiatric Bed Project.” The article was a news story, not a commentary, about an announcement by the University of Vermont Health Network...
Vermonters delivered the following testimonies, among others, before legislators, nonprofit leaders, clinicians, and peers at Mental Health Advocacy Day, whose four-hour schedule concluded with a story-sharing session on Jan. 31. The annual event, normally held at the...
January marked the five-year anniversary of the suicide of the British critic and theorist Mark Fisher, whose short book Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? has, since its publication in 2009, become a classic of contemporary left-wing political philosophy....
Commentary by Morgan W. Brown Although I have been housed for nearly twelve and a half years now, all these years later I have still felt the effects of severe trauma from having previously lived unhoused (aka homeless). Some people don’t seem to realize or...