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Jacks McNamara

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Jacks McNamara is a genderqueer writer, artist, activist, and healer based in New Mexico. Co-founder of The Icarus Project, an adventure in mutual aid & radical mental health support, and co-author of Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness, Jacks has facilitated workshops, keynoted conferences, and performed poetry across North America and Europe. A painter and designer, their creations have been shown across the US and Canada. Jacks was a 2012 Lambda Literary Fellow and has authored five zines, most recently, So Many Ways to Be Beautiful. Their first book of poetry and painting, Inbetweenland, was released in 2013 by Deviant Type Press. Jacks’ life and art are the subject of the documentary film Crooked Beauty.

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Winter Update: So Many Sparkling Things to Say

Hey y'all - I just sent out my winter update. You can read the full newsletter (with lots of pretty images) here: http://us3.campaign-archive2.com/?u=5....

A little teaser: 2013 has been an epic year. My first book of poetry, Inbetweenland, was published by Deviant Type Press in March. After spending most of the Spring on book and workshop tour, and a summer at Fancyland, I moved to Santa Fe, NM, t Read more of this blog post »

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Published on December 14, 2013 15:05

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	Navigating the Space Between Brillance and Madness: A Reader and Roadmap of Bipolar Worlds by The Icarus Project, Jacks McNamara (Goodreads Author), Sascha Altman DuBrul 4.44 avg rating — 86 ratings — published 2002 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Inbetweenland 4.64 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Artists in Times of War and Other Essays (Open Media)

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“Because this territory in my internal universe is continually shifting, I've learned to look for patterns and rhythms in the chaos that I can use as guides when I can't locate steady ground. So I make maps from my memories. I make my maps out of words and stories.”
― Sascha Altman DuBrul, Navigating the Space Between Brillance and Madness: A Reader and Roadmap of Bipolar Worlds

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“[...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

tags: freethinker, inspirational, mad

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