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Professor. Vanessor

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About Me

When I'm healthy, and the version of me that's not scared of what secret beings may grace the space under my radiator, or given up pretending to be a gladiator (really I'm just a bull), when I'm on a break from fake and less full of paranoia, when I'm not playing coyer than I can pull off convincingly, when everything I mutter doesn't clutter up ironically the EMPTY space that I try and chase, when I'm not encased in my own waste or laced with lard, instead large and in- charge, and when I'm not consumed with worry at the scurry of small and clawed feet nor beat up about the weight of birds on aerials, when the chronicles of Narnia aren't speaking to me directly, or Toto from Oz calling me to join the other side of the coin, when I'm all joined up, like an economy dot to dot etch-a-sketch that tries its best to create a fancy constellation way beyond it's station, when I've got an ounce of motivation inside my lungs, and my hope is young, when I am full bodied and ready to try a new hobby for each day of the week, when I can speak without regret and not neglect and jeopardise what I surmise are the real highs of what it's truly all about, THEN, when i am like that, I can say with conviction that in fact, I am mainly interested in:deconstructing the stigma/ myths that persist around mental 'illness'; supporting/ providing not-for- profit services for people experiencing mental health difficulties; creative writing, biting at words sometimes heard as spoken word poetry; loudly and proudly getting involved in activism; women's rights; and staying up at night eyes bleeding but still reading when it's a text to stress critical, discursive psychology.Also, as I am attempting to function like an animal composed of water and yellowed bone known as human, and as part of this complex process involves trying to be proactive, I have recently started facilitating the survivors group for women at the Zion center in Hulme... if you'd like to find out more and/or fancy coming along sometime, feel free to message me.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

...It's always good to meet people who aren't scared to stir the neighbours..whose behaviours don't savor every inch of what's 'supposed to be', who understand it's ok if it doesn't work out how it had been planned, and maybe it's turned out better that way anyway, who've got something to say, who've been sectioned:), or managed to avoid sectioning through detecting loop holes and identities that pass off as half- sanities, gender benders, ex- mortgage lenders, people who drink enough tea that their body is the shape of their 'special' mug, thugs, those who strive for an alternative society, people with a variety of identities, writers, poets, artists, thinkers, feminists, do-ers, procrastinators, people happy in who they are, those who aren't, anyone who doesn't believe that labels and diagnoses are the only way, or that don't believe that it's too late to challenge all the shitey indoctrination, people that are angry at psychiatric institutions that so-called 'ill' people are cooped up in like battery chickens, then after, regurgitated out into society having been dictated more socially- acceptable behaviour so we can all be sheep. so called freaks, people who feel less than alive, but mostly those who strive to survive because they know in the end that it's all mostly pretend anyway.or on a different note, any of these fine people:..GRISELDA POLLOCKGRAYSON PERRY:PAULA REGO:LOUISE BOURGEOIS: BJORK: '

My Blog

I think I had an epiphany yesterday

because I realised how I'd managed to cope:I'd learnt to watch from the ceiling in the hope that it were happening to someone elseand that there was a legitimate reason.yesterday I let go of my grip o...
Posted by on Mon, 22 Sep 2008 08:20:00 GMT

the strongest and most humble of women.

Ripped Hips   If you want to, then we can try Understand this to be safe And that the place I occupy At the fringes, at the seams Means that it's ok For you to say what you mean and what...
Posted by on Mon, 01 Sep 2008 13:13:00 GMT

arran poems

Static space sculpts us your words wash the scarlet sky I long to touch you .....................Life is   the spaces between words           &n...
Posted by on Mon, 01 Sep 2008 06:09:00 GMT

4

'Alone With Everybody' the flesh covers the boneand they put a mindin there andsometimes a soul,and the women breakvases against the wallsand the men drink toomuchand nobody finds theonebut keeplookin...
Posted by on Wed, 25 Jul 2007 08:27:00 GMT

5

"I stopped pursuing the twin gods of 'cure' and 'normality'. (Louise Pembroke 1996)
Posted by on Wed, 27 Jun 2007 08:32:00 GMT

'Still Crazy after all these years'.

...But, somehow, mainstream acceptance eludes her. Does Bjork care? Probably not - she's always been too much of a maverick to bother with universal popularity. But why is it that one of the greatest ...
Posted by on Wed, 13 Jun 2007 06:37:00 GMT