‘Active addiction was an intermediary, a translator between myself and the world that relayed the world back to me as either a promise or a denial of the infinite.’

Join Hajar Press, Waithera Sebatindira and Micha Frazer-Carroll at Reference Point to celebrate the publication of Through an Addict’s Looking-Glass, a meditation on how it feels to live as an addict under capitalism, and how these experiences could lead us towards liberation.

Through embodied explorations of addiction and recovery, Waithera Sebatindira invites us to inhabit crip time, a concept that describes different temporal realities in the lives of disabled people. In this collection, the addict’s crip time is distorted, mutable and non-linear, hopping backwards and forwards through memory loops and memory loss. Blackout is time travel; sobriety is failure; finitude, freedom.

An uncompromising rejection of the objectification of addicts across the political spectrum, this powerful collection on illness, disability, solidarity and spirituality illuminates their indispensable contributions to the building of a new world.

‘Ground-breaking, generous and gorgeously written … An essential and utterly unique text.’

— Micha Frazer-Carroll, author of Mad World

Waithera Sebatindira is a Kenyan writer based in London. Their previous writing and research interests have included food imperialism, drag kings and gender transformation. They are the author of Through an Addict’s Looking-Glass and a co-author of A FLY Girl’s Guide to University.

Micha Frazer-Carroll is the author of Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health. She is a columnist at The Independent. Micha has previously edited for gal-dem, The Guardian and Blueprint, a mental health magazine that she founded. She has also written for Vogue, HuffPost, Huck and Dazed. Micha is invested in using journalism to challenge systems of power.

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