Taken

by Rebecca Buckley

Rebecca Buckley is a creative researcher, writer, visual artist and community art facilitator. In this piece she combines painting with poetry to talk about carceral approaches to mental health.

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Taken.
With white consent.
For being.
For questioning.
Punished, criminalised
and jailed.

Living within
my Room 101.
The horror.
The fear.
The abandonment. This is how it feels