Mia Willis, a fellow poet and collaborator, and I are so honored to join these lovely humans in the Interfaith Youth Core's Interfaith Innovation Fellowship for our podcast and video essay series Dying/Laughing.
Dying/Laughing will focus on teh representation of suicide in mainstream media and entertainment. We will contextualize each month's topic using relevant religious and historical information, harm reduction and intervention data, and/or anecdotal evidence before parsing a pre-selected film or television series' depiction of suicide for accuracy. Our lived experiences interwoven with media critique and research creates a narrative about representation, mental health, and suicide.