Rising Voices

CAUTION: this ongoing article contains mentions of abuse I) Allez mon voisin à la crèche Two months after getting chickenpox , 11 years old Jason Wilsher-Mills – the youngest of eight children from a working-class family in Wakefield, UK - was still ill and weak. In June 1980 , his worrying mother was told by the family GP she was being hysterical ... Eventually, her son was admitted to hospital. On 1 August 1980 , the day Siouxsie and The Banshees released both their Kaleidoscope album and Red Light single, at 2.54PM while watching TV opposite his hospital bed the athlete 254 Sebastian Coe won a Gold Medal in Moscow ... Jason’s parents learned their son’s diagnostic: he will be lucky to live up to his 16 th birthday. 254 played magic number, as De La Soul put it , despite the now 56 years old artist being wheelchair bound ever since. 45 years later, women inhabiting Earth in Western countries are less frequently called hysterical but psychotic or other psychiatric terms a...