Thursday 22 September 2016

Stack: September


This month's Stack is Ladybeard, (this one, not this one), a feminist magazine with themed issues. This issue is focused on the mind.

To be honest, I held off on starting this for a while. It's a massive magazine and the very first article, 'Losing My Mind', is a series of short personal reflections about mental breakdowns. The thought of ploughing through page after page of other people's mental health problems seemed like more a challenge than I wanted right now. In the end I did overcome my trepidation and sit down with it, and I was glad I did. It wasn't heavy-going at all – the articles are relatively short, (I could have done with some of them being longer), and wildly varied. There is some serious content, (institutional racism in mental health treatment, eating disorders, the use of psychiatry for political ends), but there's plenty of cheerful oddities mixed in as well, (art, transhumanism, twins, the history of emotions, LSD). The writing's good, the design is great, the content is interesting. It's just a shame it weighs so much – it was a nightmare to carry around for a week!

Would I buy it again? Maybe? It seems to be priced at £6.50, which is shockingly low considering how big and beautiful it is. I guess it would probably all depend on the theme.

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