On any given night, more than 12,000 people in Toronto (Canada) experience homelessness, with about three-quarters of these individuals facing mental health challenges. Alarmingly, many…
“In addition to healing our own mental health issues, being able to realize that we have a voice to create systemic change and ask it…
Blood and Guts in High School is a postmodern novel by Kathy Acker that incorporates multiple art forms such as prose, poetry, visual art and intertextual…
“The Glass Castle” is a memoir by Jeannette Walls which details her childhood growing up in a family with an intelligent, yet unfortunately alcoholic father…
‘Sorrow’, an 1882 drawing by Vincent van Gogh, depicts a 32-year-old pregnant woman, Clasina Maria Hoornik, who went by the name of Sien. Sien was homeless and had addictions to alcohol and tobacco and was working in prostitution. Van Goh provided her and…
One of Vincent van Gogh’s masterpieces, “The Potato Eaters” serves as a gritty snapshot of a peasant family struggling to survive in the Netherlands during…
The destitution in North Korea causes some defectors to make the intrepid escape to South Korea through China. Despite the shared language and culture, the…
Powerful portraits of women with addictions, living in the east side of Vancouver. See additional images: http://worldwidegreeneyes.com/category/heroines/ Photographer: Lincoln Clarkes
“Keeping you is no profit; losing you is no loss.” –slogan of the Khmer Rouge Cambodia is one of the world’s poorest countries, with 30%…
