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Language Shaped by Silence

The mind and craft of a deaf writer

Knock on Wood

Solutions don’t always grow in trees

Exclaim!

Pop punk in the key of eh

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…