In this week’s newsletter: Artist and activist Scottee cues you up for a healthier year with Self Help. Plus: five of the best podcasts hosted by families
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Scottee: Self Help
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Cabaret artist and activist Scottee has tried many mental health solutions over the years. Now he promises “an amateur’s guide to staying alive … fuelled by class, queerness and fatness”. His podcast is an antidote to what he describes as “delusional positivity”. Framing sanity as a house of cards, looking at how self-pity could help with healing, and showing how capitalism has exploited sadness, it’s thoughtful, helpful and forthright. Hannah Verdier
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