Planet Thrive

Julie Laffin

• Life as art: healing from CFS, FMS, and MCS
  How does one go from twelve years in a wheelchair and mostly bedridden to walking, world traveling, working, and riding a bike?
• Chicago Tribune features chemically sensitive artist
  The Chicago Tribune presents an inspiring account of one woman's struggle to overcome severely isolating and disabling chemical sensitivity.
• Interview with performance artist Julie Laffin
  Moving Beyond MCS, a blog about recovering from environmental illness, has published an interview with performance artist Julie Laffin that explores how her work has evolved due to her illness.
• (dis)abling conditions: curated by Julie Laffin
  Julie Laffin will be "Skyped" in to this year's disability-themed Site Unseen show in Chicago to help spread awareness on environmental illness. The show is presented by The Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs.
• She Speaks in Metaphors (I Understand)
  My doctor (one of them) says my entire left side is jammed. It's like shrink-wrapped plastic wrap, tight and brittle but it should be like one large, flowing, unified teardrop. It should have coherence and flexibility and it should breathe.
• Artist Blogs About Life with Severe MCS and Advanced Neuro-Lyme
  PlanetThrive.com's newest guest blog post is by Julie Laffin, a Chicago-based performance artist who writes of her struggles with severe chemical sensitivity and advanced neurological lyme disease.
• Julie and her environment:
  "...the woman in the pictures was her friend and collaborator, Clover Morell;...she could not go because of her illness. What illness could keep someone out of the Czech Republic, I wondered?"