Fangirls Going Rogue Talk Mental Health
This week Kai Charles joins Teresa Delgado, Sarah Woloski, and Tricia Barr to talk about the ways fandom can affect our mental health, for both the better and the worse. We encourage our listeners to check out Ahmed Best’s Soul Pancake video, where he discusses depression and his thoughts of suicide in the years after playing Jar Jar Binks.
News:
- Queen’s Shadow
- Barron‘s Sneak Peek at Galaxy’s Edge
- Captain Marvel Special Look
- Celebration First Voice Acting Guests announced (via Fantha Tracks)
- Fuel Your Force (StarWars.com)
Mental Health
- National Suicide Prevention Hotline (Phone and Chat available)
- MentalHealth.gov (one-stop resource for mental health needs)
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Tricia Barr took her understanding of brand management and marketing, mixed it with a love of genre storytelling, and added a dash of social media flare to create FANgirl Blog, where she discusses Star Wars, fandom, and the intersection of women within Star Wars fandom. She is co-author of Ultimate Star Wars and Star Wars Visual Encyclopedia from DK Publishing, a featured writer for Star Wars Insider magazine with numerous articles on the Hero's Journey. Her FANgirl opinions can be heard on the podcasts Hyperspace Theories and Fangirls Going Rogue.
Tricia Barr's novel, Wynde, won the 2014 Independent Publisher Book Award Gold Medal for Best Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror Ebook. She was also part of Silence in the Library's successful all-female creator science fiction and fantasy anthology Athena's Daughters, which is available now. For excerpts and tales of her adventures in creating a fictional universe, hop over to TriciaBarr.com.
Tricia Barr's novel, Wynde, won the 2014 Independent Publisher Book Award Gold Medal for Best Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror Ebook. She was also part of Silence in the Library's successful all-female creator science fiction and fantasy anthology Athena's Daughters, which is available now. For excerpts and tales of her adventures in creating a fictional universe, hop over to TriciaBarr.com.
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