A Real Affliction: BPD, Culture, and Stigma

A Real Affliction: BPD, Culture, and Stigma


“A Vulnerability Artist Who Fights Ableism”: Dr. Merri Lisa Johnson on BPD

November 15, 2024

What does writing from the frontline of BPD look like? If the author is borderline up-ender Dr. Lisa Johnson, it looks and sounds like a witty, raw, and dazzling conflagration. In this interview, she and I discuss her memoir, Girl in Need of a Tourniquet: