Katherine Lawrence
@katherinelawrence.bsky.social
drama therapist, improvisation-based, arts in healthcare, incarcerated populations, experimental theater
katherinelawrence.wordpress.com
katherinelawrence.wordpress.com
www.newsfromthestates.com/article/sout... Housing is healthcare!
In southeast Kansas, housing is treated as health care, and people are getting off the streets
In partnership with Public Health Watch, a nonprofit, nonpartisan newsroom focused on public health inequities, Kansas Reflector is examining the overlap between housing and health as rates of homeles...
www.newsfromthestates.com
May 20, 2025 at 3:14 AM
www.newsfromthestates.com/article/sout... Housing is healthcare!
LADY I'M TRYING TO HAVE A PARASOCIAL INTERACTION WITH YOU I PROMISE I'M NOT A CREEP(every time at the Walgreens, too...)
May 18, 2025 at 2:24 AM
LADY I'M TRYING TO HAVE A PARASOCIAL INTERACTION WITH YOU I PROMISE I'M NOT A CREEP(every time at the Walgreens, too...)
Really got on the internet today just to get pissed off.
May 17, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Really got on the internet today just to get pissed off.
There is something about doing things to do them without any goal that is freeing and destroys in me the need to consume.
May 17, 2025 at 8:05 PM
There is something about doing things to do them without any goal that is freeing and destroys in me the need to consume.
We worked with paper masks and limiting the screen to a single body part in FunZone today, and it's a good reminder that digital theatre, while having a different quality to regular theatre, allows for new opportunities.
May 17, 2025 at 7:59 PM
We worked with paper masks and limiting the screen to a single body part in FunZone today, and it's a good reminder that digital theatre, while having a different quality to regular theatre, allows for new opportunities.
I have to fight my own cop in the head every damn day.
May 16, 2025 at 11:51 AM
I have to fight my own cop in the head every damn day.
I want to see drama studio/gyms where people make puppets and do improv for their health like they do yoga. Dramagiums. Dramahubs. Like an art therapist I knew had an open studio; accessible and community-oriented.
May 14, 2025 at 11:58 AM
I want to see drama studio/gyms where people make puppets and do improv for their health like they do yoga. Dramagiums. Dramahubs. Like an art therapist I knew had an open studio; accessible and community-oriented.
Love the idea of theatres that meet needs. Buy produce at the show. Have a Repair Cafe/performance.
May 10, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Love the idea of theatres that meet needs. Buy produce at the show. Have a Repair Cafe/performance.
A mysterious budget appears for a space, electricity, trash, and a performing artist. You ask, "What was I doing?" It doesn't matter. The money was well spent.
May 4, 2025 at 4:16 AM
A mysterious budget appears for a space, electricity, trash, and a performing artist. You ask, "What was I doing?" It doesn't matter. The money was well spent.
The inside of a beet is the purest thing left on this earth.
March 26, 2025 at 3:41 AM
The inside of a beet is the purest thing left on this earth.
Pretty sure if I dug my puppets out they'd smell like pyoop.
February 17, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Pretty sure if I dug my puppets out they'd smell like pyoop.
The challenge of a puppet vlog goes beyond lighting. Camera eye contact. Having to clean all that synthetic fur. A true labor of love.
February 17, 2025 at 3:36 AM
The challenge of a puppet vlog goes beyond lighting. Camera eye contact. Having to clean all that synthetic fur. A true labor of love.
I am OBSESSED. Follow me for unrealistic, idealistic project proposals.
22 Unrealized Public Project Proposals
This full color, staple-bound zine chronicles 22 unrealized project proposals put together that never quite saw the light of day. Includes full color...
microcosmpublishing.com
February 15, 2025 at 2:26 AM
I am OBSESSED. Follow me for unrealistic, idealistic project proposals.
Discovered a new poet this Valentine's Day. Ahhh, love! And Chen Chen.
Summer
Reporters & fathers call your generation “the worst.” Which really means “queer kids who could go online & learn that queer doesn’t have to mean disaster.” Or dead. & you means someone who knows that ...
www.poetryfoundation.org
February 15, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Discovered a new poet this Valentine's Day. Ahhh, love! And Chen Chen.
I just dug up a plan from 2018 to create a performing arts center specifically for recovery and justice-involved clients. My favorite idea was the artist's residency-- one fully produced play written by a client per season.
February 14, 2025 at 4:55 AM
I just dug up a plan from 2018 to create a performing arts center specifically for recovery and justice-involved clients. My favorite idea was the artist's residency-- one fully produced play written by a client per season.
Reposted by Katherine Lawrence
Bison, not prison: Activists buy a prison site to rewild the land.
A coal mine was the first to wreck the land. Now activists want to keep another extractive industry from taking root there: prisons.
grist.org/justice/biso...
#Prison #Incarceration #Jails #Climate #Tribes
A coal mine was the first to wreck the land. Now activists want to keep another extractive industry from taking root there: prisons.
grist.org/justice/biso...
#Prison #Incarceration #Jails #Climate #Tribes
Bison, not prison: Activists buy a prison site to rewild the land
A coal mine was the first to wreck the land. Now activists want to keep another extractive industry from taking root there: prisons.
grist.org
February 13, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Bison, not prison: Activists buy a prison site to rewild the land.
A coal mine was the first to wreck the land. Now activists want to keep another extractive industry from taking root there: prisons.
grist.org/justice/biso...
#Prison #Incarceration #Jails #Climate #Tribes
A coal mine was the first to wreck the land. Now activists want to keep another extractive industry from taking root there: prisons.
grist.org/justice/biso...
#Prison #Incarceration #Jails #Climate #Tribes
FunZone, experimental theater games and explorations.
February 4, 2025 at 1:59 AM
FunZone, experimental theater games and explorations.
Reposted by Katherine Lawrence
"The cheap, reliable labor force has generated more than $250 million for the state since 2000 — money garnished from prisoners’ paychecks, the AP wrote in December. Parole numbers have also plummeted in recent years."
Slavery by another name indeed.
Slavery by another name indeed.
With leaked footage from the inside, Sundance doc shows horrifying conditions in Alabama prisons
Incarcerated men in the Alabama prison system risked their safety to feed shocking footage of their horrifying living conditions to a pair of documentary filmmakers.
apnews.com
January 30, 2025 at 4:04 AM
"The cheap, reliable labor force has generated more than $250 million for the state since 2000 — money garnished from prisoners’ paychecks, the AP wrote in December. Parole numbers have also plummeted in recent years."
Slavery by another name indeed.
Slavery by another name indeed.
Nothing like getting immersed in a story with a good amount of absurd texture.
November 27, 2024 at 4:24 AM
Nothing like getting immersed in a story with a good amount of absurd texture.
The powers that be will find a way to get you "in trouble" for no matter what you do, so you may as well live well.
November 26, 2024 at 3:24 AM
The powers that be will find a way to get you "in trouble" for no matter what you do, so you may as well live well.
Across prisons, women get written up for petty infractions compared to men.
www.npr.org
November 26, 2024 at 3:22 AM
Across prisons, women get written up for petty infractions compared to men.
Found an old note where my daughter was angry "fridge meat" was an option for her to choose for dinner. Sometimes you get choices, but none of them are good.
November 23, 2024 at 8:50 PM
Found an old note where my daughter was angry "fridge meat" was an option for her to choose for dinner. Sometimes you get choices, but none of them are good.
One thing I love about drama therapy, because I'm annoyingly passionate, is the variety of ways in which theater can be applied. Rigorous and specific training program with a strict structure? We have that. Novel, barely-in-development experimentation? We have that too, and it's all exciting.
November 23, 2024 at 8:48 PM
One thing I love about drama therapy, because I'm annoyingly passionate, is the variety of ways in which theater can be applied. Rigorous and specific training program with a strict structure? We have that. Novel, barely-in-development experimentation? We have that too, and it's all exciting.
I love how this article uses the term "sulkers" and says, "If you identify as a sulker..."
My bro Hamlet and I prefer the term "advanced melancholy practitioners."
My bro Hamlet and I prefer the term "advanced melancholy practitioners."
The Psychology of Sulking: Understanding and Overcoming a Passive-Aggressive Behavior
Sulking is a complex emotional response characterized by intense anger and frustration when things don't go as planned. It is a passive-aggressive behavior where individuals seek self-promotion, self-...
www.maryjorapini.com
November 21, 2024 at 11:06 PM
I love how this article uses the term "sulkers" and says, "If you identify as a sulker..."
My bro Hamlet and I prefer the term "advanced melancholy practitioners."
My bro Hamlet and I prefer the term "advanced melancholy practitioners."