ABOUT
Hysterical Hag is a story-sharing space that explores the chaos of living in a world that rebranded hysteria instead of addressing what caused it.
At its core, Hysterical Hag is about context. It asks what happens when human reactions are judged in isolation from the conditions surrounding them.
It’s about the way so many people – especially women – have been made to feel crazy for having very human reactions to genuinely fucked up circumstances. It’s about the environments, systems, and relationships that chose labels over confronting inconvenient truths.
For centuries, words like crazy, dramatic, emotional, unstable, difficult, and hysterical have been used to dismiss people instead of examining what happened to them, what was expected of them, or what broke them in the first place.
A huge part of this space is about removing shame, not by reducing pain to a lesson or forcing everything into inspiration… but by making room for grief, trauma, joy, rage, humor, contradiction, and the full mess of being human.
This space exists to speak honestly about the emotional realities people are often pressured to minimize, hide, or carry alone. The burnout. The dark humor. The resentment. The grief. The absurdity of trying to remain functional and pleasant in less than pleasant environments.
MISSION
To remove shame by bringing context back to human reactions.
VISION
A world where context matters.
VALUES
Authenticity • Curiosity • Defiance
Hysterical Hag has evolved into a collective story-sharing space focused on interviewing women about the experiences, systems, relationships, and survival mechanisms that shaped them long before they were told their reactions were the problem.
This space is rooted in the history of hysteria and the ways women, in particular, have been dismissed instead of understood. While the project may broaden over time, I want to honor that starting point first.
So please join me somewhere in the middle of hysteria and existential unraveling, where there’s also a strange kind of freedom. The kind where you stop giving quite so much of a damn about sounding agreeable and just start saying the quiet parts out loud.