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“Queer silliness offers purposeful strategies to playfully engage with the present, insisting on frivolity, mundanity, and fun, despite...

It's always a great tragedy whenever a lively, creative, and genuinely talented individual loses their potential to an addiction. Here's...

The end of November once again brings with it the internet’s favourite musical-statistics event, Spotify Wrapped.

Trigger Warning: The following article discusses themes surrounding sexual harassment and contains some explicit language. I had heard...

Unveiling the Power of Compassion Last year, I completed a master’s degree in health psychology at King’s College London. Now, I am a...

This year’s theme is “Stories To Tell”, and is dedicated to celebrating the stories that contribute to the South Asian Community.

The words we use are impactful. They can be liberating, uplifting, and inspiring. But equally, they can be harmful.

Imagine, if you dare, being in charge of the care of a notorious, licentious writer whose idea of conducting research for his depraved novel

Good Girls Die Last is feminist reality wrapped in fiction I was so tired of crying. It was the summer of 2021 and the news was full of...

Why do we need rituals? For a number of reasons, in many settings and situations people need rituals to give them a degree of comfort,...

Every summer my grandmother would ask my childhood self what my favourite colour is. By the time winter rolled around, she would have...

As a researcher in perinatal psychiatry, and having grown up in India, I have had the privilege of understanding pregnancy and birthing...

Once again, the consequences of prioritising financial gain above real human wellbeing and mental health are being broadcasted, clear as day

After a three-year-long hiatus, the Festival of Italian Literature in London (FILL) has made an exciting comeback on Saturday 22nd of...

A festival of literature and ideas bringing together writers and thinkers from different backgrounds After a three-year break due to...

I've been captivated by flamenco since I graduated from the Laban Centre London where I trained in contemporary dance and ballet in the '80s

When Inspire the Mind asked me to write a new batch of history-based articles on mental illness, in the same style as my pieces on "Glass...

While taking part in online meetings, I started to notice that, for most of the time, I look at myself onscreen. Surely not out of...

Exploring mental health through art In this article, I share some of my learnings from taking part in The Big Anxiety festival in...

‘Ted Lasso’ is an award-winning show that tells the story of an American-football coach hired to manage AFC Richmond, a British football...

Photo by MLucan on Wikipedia, CC SA-BY 3.0) I am an Italian writer and contributor to Inspire the Mind , and I was born in a country known for the wrong type of political avant-garde. We had the first fascist party in Europe and managed to switch sides in both world wars. The social reform movements that started in the 60s descended into violence in the 70s, taking the country on the brink of civil war. Twenty years later, Berlusconi invented the modern populist political sty

A prospective interdisciplinary curriculum integrating arts, health, and humanities at King’s College London A group of academics at...

Can poetry help our mental health? In my last piece, I spoke about my personal experiences with poetry, and the life-changing impact it...

Don’t worry, there are no spoilers. I haven’t stepped into a theatre since December 2019. I decided to change that by having a solo...