DMR

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About me

Gender Female
Industry Government
Occupation Public Health Analyst
Location Boston (more or less), MA
Introduction 31. Public Healthy, Healthier, Healthiest by profession. Linguist. Communicating communicator. Writer. Mummi. Daughter (which is decently profound). My own mother was diagnosed with Paranoid Schizophrenia in the early days of shock therapy and exclusion (early 1980s, yes, it happened even then). I write as a means to reach out to other MH caregivers, and others who just wanna know how easy/hard it can be.
Interests Public Health. Writing. Communications. Culture: as in movies, food, exchange. Culture: as in film, art, people. Culture: all. I also really love Sesame Street.
Favorite Movies Eve's Bayou, Volver, Children of Brothels, Testemunho
Favorite Music Susana Baca, Nina Simone, Common, Sade, Jill Scott, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday
Favorite Books Their Eyes were Watching God- Zora Neale Hurston, The Namesake- Jumpha Lahiri, For Colored Girls who have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow was Enuf- Ntozake Shange, Please Baby, Please- Spike Lee.