Hazel is a socially-engaged curator, researcher, and writer with a teaching background and a PhD in interdisciplinary arts and intersectional politics. They have researched and written about various aspects of trauma, madness, the “psych” system, and state violence, including recent essays on the pathologisation of abuse survivors and interactions between sexual trauma and queer desire. Hazel has worked on long-term community-led projects with fellow mad, disabled, queer, and care experienced people in grass roots and institutional settings, and is especially interested in how arts and archives can connect and empower marginalised communities. They are currently employed at Charleston to research, curate, and co-produce projects on madness in the art and lives of the Bloomsbury group.
Blog by Hazel: The Dynamics of Confession from Psychiatric Services to Digital Activism