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art, ethics, academic inquiry, mental health advocate

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EXI – Art at the Edge of Existence
February 19th - 23rd, 2025
Crypt Gallery
London, NW1 2BA
Explore the raw reality of freedom, isolation, meaninglessness and death through art.

& yeah, I will have 3 of my oils from; Children of the Quarantine and Drone War Babies. #art #exi

[Dr. Jessica Taylor @DrJessTaylor]

This week, The Guardian reported on a survey by the Royal College of Psychiatrists claiming that ‘three in four women do not know that menopause causes mental illness.’

Read that sentence again. Menopause causes mental illness, apparently. And the silly women don’t even know about it.

Give us all a goddamn break, please.

It is hard to overstate how pathologising, misleading, and politically loaded that statement is. And it is even harder to ignore the fact that this message was not stumbled upon accidentally by a journalist. It was issued as a press-friendly finding by one of the most powerful psychiatric institutions in the UK. The Royal College of Psychiatrists.

A disgusting and deliberate tactic to frame menopausal and perimenopausal women as mentally ill, and of course, unaware.

As a psychologist who has spent years researching the psychiatric labelling of women and girls, and as the author of Sexy But Psycho, I find this framing deeply concerning. Because this is exactly how it happens. First, women’s normal physiological processes are reframed as psychiatric risk factors. Then women are told they are unaware, uninformed, or ignorant about their own bodies. Then the screening increases. Everyone celebrates more screening of women. Then the diagnoses increase. Then the prescribing increases. And before long, an entire life stage has been recoded as a mental health disorder waiting to happen.

This is not a drill, ladies. This is not a drill.

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https://t.co/xFYvIxUJVs

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水漲船高

[James Alec Hardy @jamesalechardy]

Really cool selection of glitch works and a strong representation from @analogvidunion artists

[James Alec Hardy @jamesalechardy]

Proud to launch first presentation as Exhibitions director @galeriaxplora
Nisreen Zahda's work reconstructs the environments of 6 locations in Gaza per1948, From the streets of Jaffa to the hillside village of Hittin. XP1 presents a VR lounge and "windows" in the past
@_joesimon

[The Blindboy Podcast @bbboatclub]

New podcast. I chat with independent socialist politician Jeremy Corbyn about compassionate politics, the history of neoliberalism, jenoside, kneecap and a united ireland. Dog Bless https://t.co/Tne7uOesh7

[James Alec Hardy @jamesalechardy]

London satellites... doing a JAH GOMM gig Sunday 1st @GOMMmusic

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@ls528art @OpenAI Nice.

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@ls528art Absolutely, it’s slow going, but good to do while we can. X

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@jamesalechardy Are there places to sit? x

[James Alec Hardy @jamesalechardy]

Artist talk at Kupfer Projects, Hackney Wick on 30th April

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

SpaceX is a hoax.
Starlink is surveillance.
Teslas are dangerous.
X is a psyop.
Elon Musk is a Nazi.

[James Alec Hardy @jamesalechardy]

This is exactly a textbook case of metaverse IRL expansion/collision. Thank you so much for bringing joy and raising our game to the exhibition Karen @oculardelusion

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Other Pt. 1 (Survival)
& Stories of Other…

March 6th-9th

123 Bethnal Green Road

more info: https://t.co/t8wGk7BMhw

#IWD

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OTHER Pt.1 Survival 
& The Stories of Other 
Aida Wilde x Nasty Gallery 

March 6-9th

Corner Space 
123 Bethnal Green Road 
London 
E2 7DG 

This radical takeover is rooted in the long-standing feminist tradition of punk & DIY, echoing the spirit of Judy Chicago’s Womanhouse.

[Nate Bear @NateB_Panic]

Turns out Musk's starlink satellites are raining out of orbit at a rate of 120 per month and each one produces 30 kilograms of aluminum oxide which eats away at the ozone layer and these oxides have increased 8 fold in the atmosphere since 2016👍

[James Alec Hardy @jamesalechardy]

Very pleased to share the opening of Interlaced next Saturday 8th March, a show I have co-curated. Set inside a breathtaking venue, a physical exhibition with digital elements, surveying the connecting between artists working between textiles and computational arts

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@StarkMinds @WomanNFT @Gustohellmen 👀👀👀👀👀👀

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Also, until the late 60’s, people could be sectioned for having ‘protest schizophrenia’, or protest psychosis, Can you guess which population was targeted?

Just saying..

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In case you’ve seen recent MH (mental health) stats as a clap back to women. According to the DSM, a diagnosis of CLINICAL DEPRESSION, equates to 2 weeks, of feeling sad.
2 weeks.
That’s it.
It’s the metrics that are skewed.