The suicides of Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain – occurring just three days apart – were yet another wakeup call. Many are speaking out about mental illness for the first time – an upside to such tragedy – but still others are quietly spiraling into what feels like a place of personal defeat. The public response to these events has been unprecedented as fans grapple with how such colorful, iconic people died by what is widely viewed as an act of their own volition. Sadly, the

More than 800,000 people a year die by suicide and 500,000 others end up in the hospital with injuries related to self-harm. Queer kids rejected by their families are almost nine times more likely to make a suicide attempt than those who are accepted. Kids wonder why they must be different in a society that tells them they’d be better off dead than who they are. In 1973, just nineteen years before I was born, “homosexuality” was removed from the DSM. And still, society tells