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3 Fave Reads of 2023

I’ve read many fantastic books in 2023. It was hard to whittle that list down to just 3 books, but here it is.

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Interview with Writer's Digest

This interview with The Writer’s Digest took place with the release of my Rainbow Award winning second novel: A Blind Eye.

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Sexual, Gender & Sexual Politic of Josephine Baker

In Unlawful Disorder (2022 Jaded Ibis Press) Bowie Long uses the exhibition of his body through dancing to reclaim his sexual identity in a room full of heterosexual men. He is using his fear of being ‘othered’ as the outsider and reclaiming his othered status through deliberate dance. This is much the same as the use of the ‘N’ word being reappropriated by African Americans to battle its historical use as a weapon by the dominant culture.

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ANOSOGNOSIA...aka lack of insight for people with SMI....and you thought it was a song by Nicki Minaj

Anosognosia is the: "lack of insight," symptomatic in people with severe mental illness (SMI) experienced by some that impairs a person’s ability to understand and perceive his or her illness. It is the single largest reason why people with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder refuse medications or do not seek treatment.

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Criminal Justice Resources For People With Mental Illness

Unfortunately, many individuals with mental illness have encounters with the criminal justice system. Here is a list of resources to help prevent arrest.

Statistics for Incarceration of People Diagnosed With a Mental Illness

Statistics from Prison Policy Initiative show the correlation of people with serious mental illness and incarceration. In my new novel, Unlawful DISorder, Bowie’s initial encounter with police exacerbates rather than defuses the situation, leading to enforced treatment at an acute inpatient mental hospital, and sets off a whirlwind of repercussions for him as well as the other people in his orbit.

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The alarming correlation between budget cuts for mental health treatment and increased encounters with the police

People with untreated mental illness are 16 times more likely to be killed during a police encounter than other civilians approached or stopped by law enforcement, according to a new study released today by the Treatment Advocacy Center.

The report, “Overlooked in the Undercounted: The Role of Mental Illness in Fatal Law Enforcement Encounters,” urges lawmakers to reduce loss of life and the many social costs associated with police shootings by enacting public policies that will:

Restore the mental health system so that individuals with severe mental illness are not left to deteriorate until their actions provoke a police response;
Fund reliable federal tracking and reporting of all incidents involving the use of deadly force by law enforcement, whether lethal or not; and
Assure that the role of mental illness in fatal police shootings is identified and reported in government data collection.

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"Provocative New Novel..." (Chestnut Hill Local)

Discussion of themes from A BLIND EYE (NineStar Press) with Chestnut Hill Local

Treatment for Children with Prader Willi syndrome: an array of supports

Were Alise’s actions that of a parent in the role of caretaker? Or was she an abuser? A BLIND EYE now available for pre-order.

Who's Lives Matter?

#BLM is not a terrorist or ‘Black supremacist’ terrorist cell. It is a shout out that Black people, including male and female and non binary and trans, are still being murdered in the streets by the very people that are supposed to protect us.

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Stalking: Another Arm of Domestic Abuse

Male victims of domestic abuse are less likely to report to police than their female counterparts, for various reasons. The historically contentious relationship between police and African American males and the LGBTQ community leads to a greater hesitancy for Black domestic partners to contact police until events have gotten to a fatal outcome.

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