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Leah Harris
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Leah Harris is a writer and educator with bylines in
The Huffington Post
, Rooted in Rights, the Disability Visibility Project, Mad in America, the
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
, and the
Philadelphia Inquirer
.
“You Can’t Coerce Someone into Wanting to Be Alive”: The Carceral Heart of the...
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And Now They Are Coming for the Unhoused: The Long Push to Expand Involuntary...
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December 10, 2022
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“Free Our People!” Ex-Psychiatric Patients Demand COVID-19 Accountability in State-Run Facilities
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May 25, 2020
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Bedlam: Public Media, Power, and the Fight for Narrative Justice
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May 10, 2020
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Life Inside America’s Psychiatric Facilities During the Pandemic: Eyewitness Accounts
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April 23, 2020
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America’s Psychiatric Facilities Are ‘Incubators’ for COVID-19
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April 19, 2020
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Narrating Asylum History Through an Anti-Racist Lens: An Interview with Author Mab Segrest
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April 15, 2020
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“Not Fragile”: Survivor-Led Mutual Aid Projects Flourish in a Time of Crisis
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March 30, 2020
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Mutual Support in an Age of Social Distancing
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March 23, 2020
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“Reimagining Psychiatry:” An Interview with Peter Stastny
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February 19, 2020
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Capitol Hill Briefings Debunk Myth Linking Gun Violence to Mental Illness
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February 9, 2020
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Bernie Sanders’ ‘Revolutionary’ Disability Plan Opposes Expanding Involuntary Treatment
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February 3, 2020
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How President Trump and Dr. Drew Got It Wrong on Deinstitutionalization
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January 24, 2020
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The Management of Captive Populations with Psychiatric Drugs: An Interview with Anthony Ryan Hatch
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January 15, 2020
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Trump Calls for “Keeping Very Dangerous People Off Our Streets” at Mental Health Summit
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December 23, 2019
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Kamala Harris’s ‘Mental Health’ Plan: Why It Still Matters
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December 11, 2019
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On Human Rights and Surviving Race: A Conversation with Celia Brown
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November 20, 2019
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Here We Go Again: RESPONSE Act Pushes Forced Treatment of the “Mentally Ill” As...
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November 3, 2019
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Survivorship, Resistance, and Connection: An Interview with Dorothy Dundas
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October 26, 2019
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The Rise of the Digital Asylum
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September 15, 2019
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Congress Holds Historic Hearing on Childhood Trauma
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July 20, 2019
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Bipartisan “RISE from Trauma Act” Introduced to Address Childhood Trauma in America
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June 17, 2019
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