Published in 2015
150 pages
Bethany Rose Lamont is the founder and editor in chief of Doll Hospital –an art and literature print journal series on mental health and the co-creator of Sad Girl Cinema, an upcoming feature length documentary on representations of mental health in screen pop culture. She is a PhD student at Central Saint Martins exploring trauma theory and digital culture.
What is this book about?
Doll Hospital is an art and literature journal on mental health.
The first issue features contributions and interviews from awesome people such as Tavi Gevinson, Latoya Peterson, Esme Wang, Kate Zambreno, Mey Valdivia Rude, Kristina Wong, and Diamond J Sharp. It is 150 pages full colour of soothing illustrations, comic art, poetry, fiction, literary essays and real talk. We think it is beautiful, we think it is necessary, and we hope you do too.
Cover art by Valerie Choi.
We are a doll hospital. We explore notions of growth, trauma, chronic illness and childhood, and identify how this lives in conversation with mental health. Constructs of white girlhood continue to exclude and alienate women of colour, particularly black women. This is unacceptable. We are interested in reclaiming these spaces, redefining innocence, and standing, unapologetically, in our trauma.
Doll Hospital is a bi-annual art and literature print journal on mental health. It encourages work with an intersectional focus as the history of mental health is so closely tied to the history of race, class, gender identity, sexuality, colonialism, chronic illness, and disability.
Rooted in self-advocacy, we centre the voices of those who are largely unheard in the mainstream notion of ‘mental health.’ Doll Hospital Journal aims to be an alternative to the limited narratives that are focused on in the mainstream media. We want to offer a platform to those who experience mental health firsthand, in their own words, on their own terms.
