Fashion activism is the practice of using clothing to carry a political or social message, and it is much older than the slogan T-shirt. Suffragettes wore colors as a code. Black Americans used dress to claim dignity under pressure. A London designer put words on cotton and wore them to meet a prime minister. Today, people use wearable art to talk about mental illness. This guide walks through that timeline and explains why a plain garment keeps turning out to be one of the most effective tools a...
Respectful mental health messaging puts the person ahead of the diagnosis, so default to person-first phrasing, like “a person with schizophrenia,” and ask...
Michelle Hammer is a mental health advocate, speaker, designer, and founder of Schizophrenic.NYC. A four-year NCAA lacrosse player at SUNY Oneonta, All-Conference honoree,...
For decades, researchers have invested billions of dollars in Alzheimer's treatments designed to target amyloid beta, a peptide that forms harmful deposits in...