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The F-Word

How politics and language mix

In the Human Frame

Memories of the baffled king

Balance the Books

The case for Canadian publishing

Leanne Toshiko Simpson

Leanne Toshiko Simpson is a writer living with bipolar disorder. Her work was featured as part of the 2018 Bell Let’s Talk campaign.

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Reading with Mental Illness

For us, the finish line is a mirage May 2019
The setting could be anywhere — exam hall, darkened bedroom, office cubicle, fluorescent ward hallway, family dinner, warm subway grate — but the feeling remains the same. All your physical, mental, and emotional energies have been spent trying to contain something you don’t fully understand, yet somehow you have been confronted by One More Challenge. It…