Performer/producer & Crazy Ex-Girlfriend superfan, Lucy Dickson, joins us to chat about her experiences as a queer artist and activist with BPD/ Emotional Dysregulation Disorder. We talk about taking back narratives in and through musical theatre, kissing girls, Spoon Theory, ableism, having therapy over Zoom and much more. Stay tuned for a special Pam-themed gratitude segment.

Find Lucy online: @lucysayssmile. Her production company, Queerly Productions, is @QueerlyProd on Twitter. You can watch the show, Sinqueerly Me, on YouTube!

CW: brief mention of suicide (28:30 - 29:15); BPD conversation is from 19 - 33 mins. Also please note there's a minor spoiler for Crazy Ex Girlfriend at the 22 min mark! Skip that minute if you're on Season 1.

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Things mentioned in the podcast:

• Meg McGrady, Lucy's co-producer & 'enby icon'
• Online productions: Pride series with MP theatricals
• Watch Signal (produced by Adam Lenson) online
• Rikki Beadle-Blair (Team Angelica) - @RikkiBB on Twitter & Insta
• Susie McKenna (Associate Director at The Kiln) - @McKennaSusie on Twitter
• Sharon D Clarke (Caroline, or Change) 
• Spoon Theory! Original article by Christine Miserandino 
• Crazy Ex Girlfriend is available to watch on Netflix & HBO - My Diagnosis song about BPD; also check out this great article about BPD as described by CXGF songs!
• BPD/EDD stigma as described by Harvard Health & by BPD patients themselves
• Cruel Intentions (1999)
• BPD/EDD as modern-day hysteria?: a think-piece
• MBT = mentalisation-based therapy
• DBT = dialectical behavioural therapy
• @makedaisychains's Boring Self Care series
• Hangxiety
• Victoria Wood - Pam & The Ballad of Barry and Freda