JC

JC writes about being a having Rheumatoid Arthritis. Issue 4 is an intro to the disease and includes info on the two main types of arthritis and JCs personal experience with chronic illness, including passing as able-bodied and being incorrectly diagnosed in childhood. The zine is hand and typewritten and contains vintage photographs.

- Barnard Zine Library

"From the editor: Collide is a collection of essays by those who are living with a physical disability and some form of mental illness.

None of this is easy. Discussing these two distinct but intertwined parts of ourselves, the dynamic, conflicting, challenging, hopeful parts of ourselves, is to be doubly vulnerable. It is to reveal the colliding parts of ourselves that are most intimate, and often hidden.

Essays include:

Finding Meaning in Pain by Maranda Elizabeth (Telegram)

Wow by Synthia show more Nicole (Damaged Mentality)

Half and Half by JC (Tributaries)

When Disabilities, Dysfunctional Childhoods, and Mental Health Collide by Kerri Radley (Deafula)

With cover art from Anna Gk"

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