Picks of the week
Scottee: Self Help
Widely available, weekly from New Year’s Day
Cabaret artist and activist Scottee has tried many mental health solutions over the years. Now he promises “an amateur’s guide to staying alive … fuelled by class, queerness and fatness”. His podcast is an antidote to what he describes as “delusional positivity”. Framing sanity as a house of cards, looking at how self-pity could help with healing, and showing how capitalism has exploited sadness, it’s thoughtful, helpful and forthright. Hannah Verdier
