Straight Jacket - Mason, Jessica Lowell
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The poems of Straight Jacket gather bravely at the intersection between LGBTQ identity and the politics of illness, and speak to the consequences of homophobia and social injustice. The book takes readers into the horrors of being committed into a mental hospital and does fierce linguistic battle with stigma, offering witness to failures within the mental health system and demonstrating expressions of the indomitable spirit's restlessness in times of helplessness and adversity. The collection chronicles in a personal way the oppressive experiences of dehumanization and institutionalization.

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The poems of Straight Jacket gather bravely at the intersection between LGBTQ identity and the politics of illness, and speak to the consequences of homophobia and social injustice. The book takes readers into the horrors of being committed into a mental hospital and does fierce linguistic battle with stigma, offering witness to failures within the mental health system and demonstrating expressions of the indomitable spirit's restlessness in times of helplessness and adversity. The collection chronicles in a personal way the oppressive experiences of dehumanization and institutionalization.
Autorenporträt
Jessica Lowell Mason is a Doctoral Candidate (ABD) in Global Gender and Sexuality Studies, a Teaching Assistant at the University at Buffalo, and an instructor in the College Writing Program at Buffalo State College. She is a facilitator with the Herstory Writers Workshop, co-facilitating the ongoing workshop "Memoirs to (Re)Imagine Mental Healthcare," and a fellow with the Northeast Modern Language Association. Mason is the co-founder of "Madwomen in the Attic," a grassroots feminist mental health and madness literacy organization, founded in 2017 in Western New York. She has taught courses related to writing and rhetoric, gender, sexuality, culture, media literacy, feminist theory, and public policy for the past seven years. In 2014, Mason was awarded the Gloria Anzaldúa Rhetorician Award by the Conference on College Composition and Communication. Some of her poems, articles, and reviews have been published by 'Sinister Wisdom', 'Lambda Literary', 'Gender Focus', 'The Comstock Review', 'Diverse Voices Quarterly', 'Lavender Review', 'IthacaLit', 'The Feminist Wire', 'Mad in America', SUNY Buffalo's 'Romance Studies Journal', 'Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy', and 'Praeger'. Her first full-length book of poetry, 'Straight Jacket', was published in 2019 by Finishing Line Press.