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Madness Radio: Survivor Spoken Word Leah Harris

First Aired 12-30-2009 Duration: 52:14

Leah Harris was orphaned after both parents were diagnosed with schizophrenia and died from medication toxicity. Today she is a leading voice in survivor activism, and her powerful spoken word poetry, including "I Was A Teenage Mental Patient," has been featured in publications including Word Warriors: 35 Women Leaders in the Spoken Word Revolution, and DC Poets against the War: An Anthology. Leah is also the co-coordinator of the US Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry. Buy her new cd "Take Refuge" at the National Empowerment Center: http://bit.ly/7f5kyN. www.myspace.com/dharmamamaleah, www.usnusp.org/

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Madness Radio: Live Through This Anthology Sabrina Chapadjiev

First Aired 9-10-2008 Duration: 51:36

Editor Sabrina Chapadjiev discusses the new Seven Stories Press anthology Live Through This: On Creativity and Self Destruction, a rich collection of women artists sharing intimate accounts of cutting, alcoholism, suicide, abuse, madness and other self harm and how it relates to their creativity. Authors include bell hooks, Bonfire Madigan Shive, Patricia Smith, Annie Sprinkle, Inga Muscio, Kate Bornstein, and Nicole Blackman. http://sabrinachap.com/LTT

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Madness Radio: Misled Youth Michael Gennarelli

First Aired 6-4-2008 Duration: 49:00

Community organizer and writer Michael Gennarelli talks about his 8 years of psychiatric treatment as a child and his stays at Bellevue Hospital in New York City. Michael reads his poetry about these painful experiences and discusses his activism, including an after school program for kids and the Misled Youth Network. www.misled-youth.org, www.123communityspace.org, www.fountainhouse.org, www.theicarusproject.net.

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Madness Radio: Queer Writer and Educator Jessica Max Stein

First Aired 4-3-2008 Duration: 52:06

Queer writer, educator, and Icarus Project organizer Jessica Max Stein talks about homophobia, mental health, and our broken educational system. She recently won an award from Poets & Writers magazine, and had a poem published in the Sun magazine. She reads from her 'zines Mad Love and Long Walk Back To Myself. Check out http://theicarusproject.net/books/mad-love-jessica-max-steins-zine-0

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Madness Radio: Youth Suicide with Leah Harris

First Aired 10-24-2007 Duration: 51:36

Psychiatric survivor and leading advocate Leah Harris reads her powerful poem I Was a Teenage Mental Patient and discusses how communities can work to prevent suicide by looking beyong mainstream approaches and rethinking our alienating school system.

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Madness Radio: Poet Shaman Eddie Bartok-Baratta

First Aired 11-9-2006 Duration: 55:22

Visionary writer, musician, and sculptor Eddie Bartok-Baratta performs his powerful poetry, plays flute, and discusses his amazing life, trauma and violence, and his creativity.

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Madness Radio: John McCarthy Irish Mental Health Advocacy

First Aired 3-28-2006 Duration: 57:12

Ireland Activist and Poet John McCarthy, Mindfreedom International representative to the United Nations, discusses being 'normally mad,' recovery, the UN Disability Convention, and challenging system abuses, in dialog with Will Hall and co-host Oryx Cohen. John also responds to callers, and reads a very moving poem about the death of a friend in the system. A very popular show.