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Filed under: Regular Contributors, David Roche, Art Gallery

Original text by David Roche after the jump…

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Filed under: Regular Contributors, David Roche, Art Gallery

Original text by David Roche after the jump…

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Filed under: Regular Contributors, David Roche, Art Gallery

Original text by David Roche after the jump…

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Filed under: Themes, Tumour Humour, Art Gallery, Irked Videos, Interviews, Books & Book Reviews

In Jackson Hunsicker’s own words:

I don’t know how we got here or who is to blame. And, I don’t know how to get out of it, but women today are never satisfied with the way they look.

Either we think we’re too tall, too thin, too flabby or fat. If our hair is curly, we want it straight. If it is straight, we want it curly. We’re constantly searching for ways to improve. No one looks in the mirror and says, Wow, you couldn’t be any better looking.

If that’s how we feel about ourselves when we’re well, what happens when we’re sick? What happens when we get cancer and lose our hair while undergoing aggressive treatment?

It can be devastating. Click to continue »

Filed under: Books & Book Reviews, Irked Videos

HAROLD RUSSELL: LOST BOTH HANDS BUT WON TWO OSCARS

Nova Scotia’s Double Oscar Winner

by Bruce Nunn

And now please welcome the actor from Nova Scotia who set an all-time record at Hollywood’s famous Academy Awards ceremony. He was awarded not one but two golden Oscar statuettes for the same movie role. Two for one! And it was a first. Plus, his performance in The Best Years of Our Lives was his first acting experience and, as a handicapped war veteran, he made his motion picture debut without hands. He was the amazing Harold Russell. In 2002 he passed away in his late eighties. But, my, what a life he had lived.

“I lost both my hands in an explosion when I was with the airborne troops,” he told me in a telephone interview from Boston back in 1996. TNT exploded in Click to continue »

Filed under: Regular Contributors, Stuart Baker-Brown, Art Gallery

The Mera Diaries

Words and photographs by Stuart Baker-Brown

An Irked exclusive!

Stuart Baker-Brown, a tenacious mental health activist and long-time Irked contributor, was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1996. For many years he has courageously promoted his own positive recovery to help inspire and offer hope to all those who share his diagnosis. On October 12, 2008, Stuart flew from his home in the UK to Kathmandu, Nepal and attempted to reach the summit of Mera Peak. This is his story, in his own words and with his own photos… 

October 13^th 2008.

It is 1:32pm UK time. I am sitting here at Doha airport in Qatar. We had to return just under an hour into the flight to Kathmandu. The plane had technical difficulties and there was a lot of cabin pressure and the air conditioning stopped working. So, it was announced by the captain that for passenger safety the plane had to return back to Doha.

I was supposed to be arriving in Kathmandu at approx 8am Nepal time, and at this moment I have no idea when we will be boarding a new flight.

The adventure starts! Click to continue »

Filed under: Irked Audio, Irked Videos, Themes, The Skinny on Fat

Julia Barry is the creator, musician, and director of the experimental advocacy program, “In Her Image:  Producing Womanhood in America.” She works with high schools, colleges, organizations, community centers, and conferences to promote widespread, public media literacy. A “REALLY Hot” awardee in the 2006 REAL Hot 100 list, Barry has been a featured guest at events such as the National Organization for Women’s Love Your Body Day, the Girl Scout National Leadership Institute, and the Alliance for a Media Literate America’s National Media Education Conference. She was also the 2003 recipient of the Andrea Klein Willison Prize for Poetry/Women’s Advocacy.

If you like Tori Amos, if you like Sarah McLachlan, if you like Joni Mitchell or Enya or Beth Gibbons or Diana Krall…then you will LOVE Julia Barry.

Her lyrics are substantive. She sings from her soul. She can make a piano shiver-and-then-wail. Her vocals have been described as “simultaneously melancholy and sweet.” Sometimes she’s provocative. Always she’s on key.

Her 2002 debut album, Arrivals, is a “storehouse of good songs,” as they say. It’s a magnificent work of art and a glorious work of heart. In addition to her hectic schedule performing live, Julia has also returned to the studio to begin recording her next CD.

FACT: If Julia Barry’s not on your radar yet, she will be soon.

Listen to the track Song For Us Trying, off Arrivals: Click to continue »

Filed under: Irked Videos, Themes, The Skinny on Fat

Watch a fascinating 20-minute documentary about American photographer Laurie Toby Edison by Kyoto, Japan-based filmmaker John Wells. Edison speaks with Rebecca Jennison about her work in conjunction with the exhibition “Meditations on the Body” at the Osaka National Museum of Art.

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Filed under: Art Gallery

Terry Fox, Cunard Street near the corner of Robie, Halifax, Nova Scotia, headed for Province House, May 20th, 1980.

Terry Fox was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba July 28, 1958.

On March 9, 1977, Terry discovered he had a malignant tumour in his right leg and Click to continue »

Filed under: Themes, Bum Deal, Art Gallery

Remember Tony?

He’s back, for an exclusive Irked Magazine photo shoot… 

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