Mind / You

Black Mountain Radio

To be patient is to be able to endure hardship, “to bear pains or trials calmly or without complaint.” Writer Jumi Bello recounts her experience of being a psych ward patient as a woman of color and the countless ways in which neurodivergent people become dehumanized and estranged from society.

Hexagons have mysterious qualities related to dynamite, LSD, DNA, plastic, geometry, and metaphysics. In this essay, Ruth elucidates their obsession with the shape as it relates to their depression and mental health. Sound design and production from musician Aubrey Calaway.

Jackie DesForges has a hypersensitivity to sound referred to as misophonia. In the loudest city on Earth, DesForges experienced full body hives and incredible anxiety. One sound, however, brings DesForges a sense of euphoria.

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