This angle on things may interest the strategically challenged (i.e. "consumers" and survivors of authoritarian abuse who want to make a clean break from controls on our collective alienation); my own interest is to use my art to inspire discussion along lines of visionary ways to respond, re-create, and design our lives as we'd like to live.

Jessica Max Stein talks about the Icarus workshop she gave at the Northeast Herbal Convergence

9 months of research, writing, editing, discussing, consulting, planning, designing, sweating, panicking, despairing, freaking out, emailing back and forth, mutual aid, dreaming, community solidarity, and crazy-outta-control mad love later, the much-awaited 40-page book about reducing and coming off psych meds hits the presses...

Since I've been having insomnia myself since last November, I thought it would be a good idea to find some links to sites with helpful information on ways to get to sleep.