Sarah L. Taggart

mad/crazy PhD candidate & writer :: she/her :: settler/pākehā :: author of PACIFIQUE, out now from Coach House Books, order 👉

[Sarah L. Taggart @insptaggart]

Bowled over that I have been awarded a #SSHRC for my PhD research @modernletters @WellingtonUni 🥹 So grateful that my project to expose ableism & sanism in the scholarship on #JanetFrame & propose a #Mad reading of her #MadnessNarratives will be funded by
@SSHRC_CRSH

[Michael @yosoymichael]

Sufjan coming out by dedicating his album to his partner who died earlier this year. I am absolutely not okay. Nowhere near it.

[Room Magazine @RoomMagazine]

What if the person you fell in love with might not exist? 🥀

This fall, break your heart with @insptaggart's Pacifique (@coachhousebooks). After a life-changing romance, Tia winds up in a psychiatric ward alone.

Read Megan Cole's review on our site:

https://t.co/S9pSzmqaSl

[Sarah L. Taggart @insptaggart]

@poetactics All of Monica Hughes's sci-fi, esp the Keeper of the Isis Light trilogy (children's/YA).

[Project LETS @projectlets]

Today marks the start of our first ever Psychiatric Survivor Clinic! 🔥 We are so excited to bring together over 90 psychiatric survivors for peer support, resource and skill sharing, community building, and collective healing. In Mad solidarity! #PsychAbolition

[Sarah L. Taggart @insptaggart]

Thank you Becca Lawlor for this big-hearted review of #PacifiqueTheBook @ampersandreview

[Coach House Books @coachhousebooks]

"Pacifique suggests that sometimes healing is accepting oneself and not trying to fit into the prescribed box, but to create the container that is most comfortable in which to reside." @ampersandreview on Pacifique by @insptaggart!

[Sarah L. Taggart @insptaggart]

Thank you to Tessa and Neil of Wellington City Libraries for welcoming me into your space. I really enjoyed this conversation about writing, the "in/discipline" (Ingram) of mad studies, and mad characters as reliable narrators.

[Wellington City Libraries @wcl_library]

Sarah L. Taggart is a queer, Canadian writer living in Petone who has just released her first novel, Pacifique. We recently interviewed her about her writing, the book and its themes - check it out on our blog! https://t.co/8CRsQRERsw

[Sarah L. Taggart @insptaggart]

@WordsandGuitar It was the kind of show where it's easiest to just give in and accept you have no idea wtf is happening.

[Sarah L. Taggart @insptaggart]

@samjamming Oh no!!!

[ANDREW GURZA @andgurza2]

happy halloween. 🎃

please do not dress up like a disabled person, mentally ill person, or use words like insane or crazy today (or ever, really)

disability/chronic illness/mental illness is not a costume you can slip in and out of.

[Sarah L. Taggart @insptaggart]

Chuffed that #PacifiqueTheBook is an @alllitupcanada #FridayReads pick. Thank you! (love the image, too!)

[All Lit Up - now on bsky as alllitupcanada @alllitupcanada]

What do you get when you add Susanna Kaysen’s GIRL, INTERRUPTED with Daphne du Maurier’s gothic REBECCA? Our #FridayReads pick PACIFIQUE (@coachhousebooks) by @insptaggart

https://t.co/7BhzmG5zsl

[Coach House Books @coachhousebooks]

Featuring Pacifique by Sarah Taggart (@insptaggart)!

[Sarah L. Taggart @insptaggart]

What an incredible list to be included on. Thank you @Lesbrary for including Tia and Pacifique in your October round up.

[The Lesbrary @Lesbrary]

There are so many incredible sapphic books out this month! https://t.co/dMPucjvWjR

[Indian Residential School Survivors Society @IRSSurvivor]

Tomorrow is Orange Shirt Day. Sept 30 is also the National Day for Truth & Reconciliation. Please remember to wear orange so we can honour survivors and remember those who didn't make it home.
If you need someone to talk to please call the 24/7 IRSSS crisis line. 1-800-721-0066.

[#️⃣ @ShilpaRaikar]

Thanks for the great #book haul @torontoWOTS.

[Sarah L. Taggart @insptaggart]

Wow, @KisscutDesign 's cover looks esp. pretty in the shadow and light.

[Coach House Books @coachhousebooks]

"Lucid and destabilizing, graceful and raw, this novel asks: is losing one’s sanity so different from falling in love?" – Deborah Willis, author of The Dark and Other Love Stories
Preorder this beautiful novel now at https://t.co/6BTddyIQv1 or from your local indie bookshop! 💘

[Chris Tse @chrisjtse]

Chinese Language Week Exam

#NZCLW

[Robyn Hunt @AccEase]

What will happen to older and disabled people when protection from the booster shot wears off? Or when there's a new wave or variant #CovidIsNotOver #COVID19

[Sarah L. Taggart @insptaggart]

So grateful to be included among such fabulous company. #MadLit #CanLit #5WeeksTillPubDay

[Coach House Books @coachhousebooks]

ft. anticipated fiction from @insptaggart and Suzette Mayr 😍

[CBC Books @cbcbooks]

Exciting news! Here are the Canadian novels and short stories we are excited to read in the second half of 2022.

https://t.co/66Ie9YEcit