Breaking Silences Project: Asian American Women Speak Out on Mental Health: Writing Workshop Announcement

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Writing Workshop Announcement

The Breaking Silences Project Writing Workshop

We are offering a Writing Workshop for Asian American Women who have dealt with mental health issues and want to share their experiences. (See: What is The Breaking Silences Project blog entry for more detail.)

Writing Workshop Saturday October, 30^th 2010

1 – 3 PM

Somerville, MA

Contact Pata for more information: kotoridesigns@gmail.com

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A Call for Stories of Asian American Women about Mental Health

Breaking Silences Project: Speaking the Unspeakable

A Call for Stories of Asian American Women and Girls and Mental Health

According to a National Alliance of the Mentally Ill fact sheet:

• Asian American women ages 15-24 have a higher rate of suicide than Caucasians, African Americans and Latinos in that age group.

• The Commonwealth Fund Survey of the Health of Adolescent Girls reported that Asian American adolescent girls had the highest rates of depressive symptoms of all racial/ethnic and gender groups.

Yet we rarely hear about these girls and young women. We don’t know their stories. The silence around these issues is deafening.

We propose to break this silence by collecting stories of Asian American women and girls and their relationships with mental health issues and the mental health system for eventual publication and incorporation into a dynamic theatre piece on this subject.

If you are an Asian American woman who as an adolescent:

- Suffered with depression or anxiety

- Considered suicide

- Had “emotional issues”

- Was diagnosed with a mental illness

And you want to break the silence and tell your story. We encourage you to contact us.