Ep.123 Schedule Joy with Relebone Rirhandzu Myambo

Episode • Mar 22, 2024 • 48m

Do you low key not know how to be around someone with a mental illness? Like is it easier to pretend they don't exist so you do not have to deal with it. Truth is mental illness or mental disabilities are more common than we think also don't always present as the naked guy walking down the street caked in dirt. It can be your neighbour, a workmate, your lover. So you kinda need to learn more about it. That's exactly what we are doing today.

Let's talk about it.

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Relebone Rirhandzu eAfrika is a small-town girl getting lost in the big city. She is an essayist, writer, literacy advocate, and mental health advocate. Her first full-length debut, Broken Porcelain (Blackbird Books, 2022), is a collection of essays describing one Black woman’s mental illness experience with a universal sensitivity. In it Relebone offers an unbridled perspective on the darkness of living with a brain that is constantly trying to sabotage you. Her previous publishing credits include essays in the anthologies Living While Feminist (Kwela, 2020) and Mintiro Ya Vulavula: Arts, national identities and democracy in South Africa (MISTRA, 2021). She’s the host, content producer, and program coordinator of the mental health podcast The Nine Lives of Depression Survivors; an avid bookstagrammer who promotes Black writers and their work, and a plant mom who doesn’t believe that there is such a thing as having too many plants.

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