Media features and appearances
Select articles about Honor, Graham, and the Big Feels Club
“It is one of the few spaces that people can go and not feel that anyone is trying to fix them. In my experience, this is a sacred thing.” - Case Study: Royal Commission into Victoria’s Mental Health System, March, 2021
“The Big Feels Club is something to believe in. If it was a political party, I’d vote for it…. Graham Panther sounds like the name of a superhero. I'd never heard of him before, but I'm a firm fan.” - The New Zealand Herald (Editorial), 28/8/2017
“Honor’s super honest self documentation is educational, enlightening, touching and comforting.” - Vice Magazine, 18/4/2016
Image courtesy The Age
“I thought there was no one else like me”: Push to build peer support into mental health overall - feature on Honor’s system change work in The Age, 1/3/2021
Image courtesy The Royal Commission into Victoria’s Mental Health System
“I would argue that having more peer-led organisations—services run ‘by’ us—can help support the development of services run ‘as’ us, over time, by which I mean, truly grassroots, peer-run offerings that fill the gaps that mainstream services can’t easily fill.” - profile of Graham Panther: Royal Commission into Victoria’s Mental Health System, March 2021
“Even inside a psychiatric facility, Honor was told to keep her diagnosis a secret.” - feature and podcast interview with Honor in Mamamia, 21/11/2018
The Elle List of ‘Ones to Watch’ - featuring Honor, Elle Magazine, 18/9/2019
Frankie Magazine, Feel-good Special Issue - feature on the Big Feels Club, 2021
Frankie Magazine, Issue 81 - feature on the Big Feels Club, 2018
The ABC’s All In The Mind episode “Ways to Stay Alive”, 14/8/2018, featuring Graham and the Big Feels Club.
“The power of peer support: How sharing lived experience of mental illness offers 'a different kind of hope'” - featuring Graham and the Big Feels Club, 21/10/2018
Quotes about No Feeling Is Final, the memoir podcast we made with the ABC:
“Mental health explored like never before” - Financial Times, 25/11/2018
“Though it deals with heavy subject matter, the power of No Feeling Is Final is in the case it makes for going on living.” - New York Times, 13/9/2020
“Excellent work and total magic” - The Atlantic, 23/12/2018
“Something rare” - TIME Magazine, 20/12/2019
Select pieces written by Graham and Honor for other media:
“I’ve set up plenty of mental health services. Here’s why I wouldn’t use any of them.” Graham Panther for The Spinoff, 26/8/2017
“Where do you go when you’re afraid you’ll kill yourself?” Honor Eastly for ABC News, 7/10/2018
“My girlfriend told me she was suicidal. Here’s what happened next.” Graham Panther for ABC Everyday, 7/10/2018
“I had to find a loophole to get mental health care.” - Honor Eastly for the Herald Sun, 16/10/2018.
“Why I won’t tell someone who’s suicidal to ‘just ask for help”. Graham Panther for ABC Everyday, 11/10/2018
“How a silent meditation retreat made me less afraid of people.” Graham Panther for ABC Everyday, 8/9/2019
“How to handle a bad day.” Graham Panther for ABC Everyday, 20/6/2019
“When every little thing makes you anxious.” Graham Panther for ABC Everyday, 7/4/2021.
“Why compliments made me cringe, and how I’ve learned to accept praise.” Graham Panther for Tiny Buddha, 2018.
TV appearances:
“The Project”, interview with Honor Eastly, Channel Ten, 2021.
“The Drum”, interview with Honor Eastly, ABC, 2021.
“Michael Mosley’s Reset”, interview with Graham Panther, SBS, 2018.