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TW: This episode contains discussion of suicide and mental health. If you're struggling, please reach out to Lifeline on 13 11 14 or visit lifeline.org.au

Hannah Illingworth has spent her life connecting people to creativity, as Director of Darwin Fringe Festival and the force behind community spaces like Babes that Paint and Queens of the Amp. Like so many of us, her path there was anything but straight.

Expelled from school, grieving a best friend lost to suicide at thirteen, and navigating the systems around her, Hannah found her footing through art, community, and an instinct to just keep trying things. 

In this conversation, she talks about building an identity through chaos, the cost of loving your work so much it swallows you whole, and why real and honest anger might be the most underrated source of power we have.

Joy, she says, is resistance. This episode is about what that actually means.