Despite predictions that President Trump’s controversial performance would be the primary incentive driving voters to cast their ballots this midterm, residents of Austin kept it local. At polls across the neighborhood, voters cited the need for more mental health services and workers rights as their motivation to show up.
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The trauma she experienced during the Second Intifada continues to haunt Mary Hazboun, a 34-year-old Palestinian artist and folk singer from Bethlehem. She’s now channelled some of her pain into an art project titled “The Art of Weeping.”
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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, approximately one in nine women experience symptoms of postpartum depression; One in one thousand women experience symptoms of psychosis, and up to four percent of women with untreated postpartum psychosis commit infanticide. A new law in Illinois allows postpartum illnesses like depression and psychosis to be mitigating factors in sentencing.
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“I remember I couldn’t sleep the whole night and day, whatever it was, I don’t even remember like what time it hit and what time it ended. The whole moment is kind of blurry.”
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By Pat Nabong Near the entrance of an art festival in Chicago’s Southport neighborhood, a woman clad in floral pants
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By Patricia Nabong The first time Antonio Magitt was arrested, he said, he was in eighth grade. The timid boy
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By Courtnee Brinker CHICAGO—Steppenwolf Theatre Company’s recent production “Between Riverside and Crazy” brought issues of policing to the stage, echoing
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