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Blueprint is a mental health magazine founded by Cambridge University students. We aim to tackle stigma while providing a safe space for creatives.

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Blaming teenage girls’ rising self-harm on social media is careless

Blaming teenage girls’ rising self-harm on social media is careless

April 16, 2018May 22, 2018 blueprint non-fiction

In the fight against sexual violence, it’s okay to step away from triggering content

When trauma is shared so widely on social media, it's okay to switch off your phone and look after yourself.

April 5, 2018 blueprint non-fiction

Sex, trauma, and facing things

I know that the Weinstein’s and the C.K’s, and the Ansari’s are slipping out of popular discourse. But friends, partners, family members and strangers stay abusing.

April 5, 2018 blueprint creative writing

Embryo

You open your mouth wide, I peer into the greasy tunnel. I got lost in there, I slipped on all the surfaces.

March 25, 2018 blueprint creative writing

Fixations of Little Consequence & Unflinching

We want it so much that we succumb to the illusion. Talking circles with a distinct sort of nausea. Flagrant on our own accord so don't believe every thought you think, fool.

March 25, 2018 blueprint non-fiction

From mother to daughter

I inferred some messages. Being female means gore, agony and mess. Being adult means having a frightening body that is out of my control.

March 23, 2018March 23, 2018 blueprint non-fiction

I’m leaving counselling. What now?

Weeks ago I would will the sessions to be over, but right now I feel almost abandoned, like a small child not ready to let their mother’s hand go.

March 22, 2018March 26, 2018 blueprint art

Sunnier days will come

Blueprint readers send in their pictures of Spring as she begins to overcome Winter.

March 22, 2018 blueprint non-fiction

My father’s daughter

Reflections on how mental illness moves through the family.

March 17, 2018March 17, 2018 blueprint art

‘I cry if I want to’: Lou L shares her emotional illustrations

In the second of the 'Interviews with Artists' series, Blueprint's Arts Editor interviews self-taught Swedish illustrator Lou L.

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Blueprint is a mental health magazine founded by students at Cambridge University.

Blueprint is currently taking a break, with its creators thinking over what the next stage of the project might look like. Therefore, we are currently not accepting submissions. For any urgent author enquiries about existing work on the site, please contact michafc@hotmail[dot]com

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