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is a clinical psychologist based in Philadelphia, US. Her poetry, essays and feature articles have been published by The New ...

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The Seattle-based artist Mindie Lind grew up ‘obsessed with the stage’, and today has a prominent voice in the Pacific Northwest as a musician and writer on disability and beyond. However, as she ...