Overview

Art is a form of resistance. Resistance begins in the mind. fabricating a home 'cause you never had one illustrates with essay and poetry Jacquese Armstrong's escape to ""ground zero,"" while colliding with the Western Psychiatric model for mental health from a recent self-appraisal of identity crisis, diagnosed and medicated as schizophrenia, starting a four-decade battle. Drawing on recent ancestral history as metaphor, sometimes experienced as truth, the memoir takes the reader through the inception of incident, the psychiatric labelling she accepted most of her adult life, to epiphanies and breakthrough bringing her home, to herself. Written over a decade, the essays and poetry were literally the ladder she constructed in real time inside the blackest hole to ascend and rediscover Light.

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""In this powerful collection, fabricating a home 'cause you never had one, Jacquese Armstrong interweaves soulful themes of self awareness, mental health, oppression, spirituality, and flourishing. These heartfelt poems and essays are transparently written in ways that both captivate and invoke the readers to simultaneously witness Jacquese's journey and reflect on their own experiences. These moving pieces are lyrically engaging, culturally rich, and compassionately reflective of the human condition."" -Thema Bryant, PhD, author of Matters of the Heart: Healing your relationship with yourself and those you love

Author Information

Jacquese Armstrong is the author of blues legacy (Broadside Lotus Press, 2019) and was the recipient of the 2019 Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award. She received the 2015 Ambassador Award from the State of New Jersey Governor's Council on Mental Health Stigma for promoting wellness and recovery and reducing stigma through the arts. She was a 2024-2025 Women's eNews Loreen Arbus Accessibility is Fundamental Journalism Fellow.

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