Presented by Write Out Loud for Lit Alive 2022:Part autobiography, part Gothic Horror, Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote The Yellow Wallpaper “not… to drive people crazy, but to save people from being driven crazy.” Within her lifetime, she had irrefutable proof that “it worked.” This exploration of self-actualization, social norms, mental health, self-expression, and the desperate grasping for meaning and purpose at the frayed edges of the human psyche resonates all the more as we find our way out of the isolation, uncertainty, and unrest of the past two years.Follow on social media!Facebook + Twitter