Live Through This

by Sabrina Chap, bell hooks, Inga Muscio

Self-destructive behaviorMental healthWomen artistsArt and mental illnessWomen, psychology

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Open Library

About this book

A visceral look at the bizarre entanglement of destructive and creative forces, Live Through This is a collection of original stories, essays, artwork, and photography. It explores the use of art to survive abuse, incest, madness and depression, and the often deep-seated impulse toward self-destruction including cutting, eating disorders, and addiction. Here, some of our most compelling cartoonists, novelists, poets, dancers, playwrights, and burlesque performers traverse the pains and passions that can both motivate and destroy women artists, and mark a path for survival. Taken together, these artful reflections offer an honest and hopeful journey through a woman's silent rage, through the power inherent in struggles with destruction, and the ensuing possibilities of transforming that burning force into the external release of art. With contributions by Nan Goldin, bell hooks, Patricia Smith, Cristy C. Road, Carol Queen, Annie Sprinkle, Elizabeth Stephens, Carolyn Gage, Eileen Myles, Fly, Diane DiMassa, Bonfire Madigan Shive, Inga Muscio, Kate Bornstein, Toni Blackman, Nicole Blackman, Silas Howard, Daphne Gottleib, and Stephanie Howell.

Themes & subjects

Self-destructive behaviorMental healthWomen artistsArt and mental illnessWomen, psychologyWomen, mental health

About the authors

Sabrina Chap

9 December 1977

Sabrina Chap is a Brooklyn-based songwriter, composer, and performer.

bell hooks

25 September 1952 – 15 December 2021

Gloria Jean Watkins, better known by her pen name bell hooks, was an American author, feminist, and social activist. The name "bell hooks" is derived from that of her maternal great-grandmother, Bell Blair Hooks. - modified from Wikipedia