Bea Korsch's Intrusive Thots Zine Documents Depression and Recovery

During a year-long outpatient program focused on personality disorders, Brooklyn-based artist Bea Korsch developed the experimental comic Intrusive Thots. Originally intended as a personal endeavor, the zine merges drawings, journal entries, ephemera, and text messages to explore her internal experiences. A key component of her program was a process group that met three times a week, which Korsch likens to a sandbox for fostering deeper relationships. The zine tackles themes such as self-harm, masturbation, childhood trauma, and dissociative episodes. Korsch digitized physical artifacts and employed Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop for its stark black-and-white aesthetic. The cover photo was captured from her bed, and the zine can be found on her Instagram. This article was penned by Paul M, who has been a Junior Writer at It's Nice That since May 2025.