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| Will | xe/xyr/xem or they/them | legally 23 |
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white, non-binary lesbian, disabled & chronically ill, neurodivergent, traumatised, dissociative
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communitygardens

anticapitalism…is about solidarity. like the whole basis of capitalist ideology is that personal gain is worth more than anything. anticapitalism, therefore, is the practice of supporting others despite capitalism’s insistence that we must care only about those issues that immediately impact us…so it’s deeply ugly to call yourself an anticapitalist & yet pursue only your personal liberation. 

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hi friends. i have to move fairly unexpectedly because my partner was physically assaulted by a transmisogynistic couple in my apartment building.  this isn’t the first instance of someone being transphobic or aggressive in the apartment building, but we no longer feel safe being here. i wasn’t planning to move and due to covid and general job stuff, i don’t have any savings for a pet deposit or anything. we’re trying to figure out what we can but it’s really challenging. if you’d be willing to donate or signal boost this post i would really appreciate it.

#transmisogyny -
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The abolition of psychiatry does not mean that no one is allowed to identify with psychiatric diagnoses that they feel serve them, or that no one is allowed to continue taking psychiatric medications they find effective². It does mean, however, that the notion of ‘mental illness’ was invented to pathologize logical responses to the stress and trauma that are omnipresent in a world brutalized by colonialism and capitalism. Psychiatry has been described as a “medicalized colonizing of lands, peoples, bodies, and minds.” A notable example of psychiatry’s colonial intentions was the diagnosis of ‘drapetomania’: the mental ‘disease’ that explained why enslaved Black people in the Antebellum south ran away from their death camps (the ‘treatment’ for which was to treat them more ‘like children’). As China Mills states in Globalizing Mental Health, “distress caused by socio-economic conditions (and often neoliberal economic reforms) comes to be rearticulated as ‘mental illness’, treatable using techniques that draw upon similar rationales to those that led to distress initially.”
Psych abolition means that the intended and realized outcome of the advent of ‘mental illness’ as a signifier is to make folks feel like they will never get better and that their distress is inherent to their brain chemistry rather than a reaction to external stimuli. This logic is essentially victim-blaming and shifts responsibility away from cycles of violence that create the conditions for psychological suffering — not to mention that the “chemical imbalance” theory has been numerously debunked. It means, too, that psychiatry was built with a core desire to dehumanize, drug, and discard those whose behavior and ways of being diverged from the status quo. This status quo was and is white, patriarchal, and absolutely enamored with respectability and compliance with the state’s self-serving notions of “normalcy.”
Many Psychiatric Survivors have made incredible strides in pursuit of justice, reform, and sometimes abolition. But the current nature of psych wards, which, for the most part, have remained violent, degrading prisons at which a majority of ex-inmates assert that they were not helped and were further traumatized, arguably indicates that the asylum never died. Why? Because it was never supposed to. Psychiatry IS the ethic of the asylum, and it will not fall until Psychiatry falls.

Stella Akua Mensah and Stefanie Lyn Kaufman-Mthimkhulu, Abolition Must Include Psychiatry

#psychiatry#antipsychiatry
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bds-themme

i really spend most of my day laughing at words and images online and then spend the rest of it tormenting myself mentally

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rinkitay

PASSIVELY DONATE THRU YOUTUBE VIDEOS

here’s a small list of videos you can watch and passively donate to different funds that are a part of the black lives matter movement. if you are interested in donating as well, i’ve linked most of the funds and organizations the youtubers are donating too. please do not skip the ads!!

@ EU anon this helps immensely regardless of if you’re eligible to sign petitions or not

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‪postal workers risk their health and safety more than any cop I’m aware of ‬

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librarycards
Anonymous asked:

You seem very educated in anti-psychiatry and mad studies. Do you have any readings you could recommend to someone who knows very little on these subjects?

librarycards answered:

yes! first of all, for your basic 101 type reading, i'd look to the late, great mel baggs -- hir blogs are full of basic info that everyone can understand, and which will prepare you really well as you look to engaging with more challenging readings:

then i would go to eli clare's works, 

  • "exile and pride" and 
  • "brilliant imperfection,"

 for a foundational understanding of transness&disability&trauma + the concept of pathologization. then, i'd move toward readings –– highly critical ones!! –– from psychiatric p/c/s/x (patients/consumers/survivors/ex-patients), particularly from The Icarus Project, Mad in America, and this specific post about the "burrito test." 

Read, of course, Madness and Civilization. Seriously. You have to read it. 

Read Epistemic Injustice by Miranda Fricker. Epistemic Injustice is the foundational & formational mark left by/responsible for producing "Madness" and "patienthood." 

From here I'd recommend some more titles such as the Mad Matters reader by  LeFrançois, Menzies, and Reaume (this is the citation I use when "defining" Mad studies/a Mad studies approach/conceptual framework)  Psychiatric Hegemony by Bruce Cohen, Black Madness :: Mad Blackness by Theri Alyce Pickens, Crip Theory by Robert McRuer, Mad At School by Margaret Price, The Protest Psychosis by Jonathan M. Metzl, Containing Madness by Kilty & Dej, and Enforcing Normalcy: Disability, Deafness, and the Body by Lennard J Davis.

you'll notice a lot of these are focused on disability "rather than" Madness -- Mad studies is a comparatively small (sub-)field. you'll need to keyword search within other resources to find a lot of this work. start out with disability studies quarterly, searching Madness, etc. there's also some intriguing work going on in the area narrative studies, esp. with regard to Mad experimental autobiography. 

There's also *TONS* of new, exciting thesis work happening by and for and from Madpeople!! and members of otherwise psychopathologized groups! one i'd love to highlight is a 2017 paper on the pathologization of indigenous youth -- it's phenomenal.

these works can be found at "the usual sources," as it were. if you need help accessing pdfs/epubs, please message me with your email address and i can get it to you. if you find some scholarly journal article, etc. you need access to but lack an institutional login, please contact me and i will get it to you as soon as i can, with a potential slight delay as i'd need to request it from my college library.

use keywords like:

  • critical Mad studies
  • Madness
  • postpsychiatry
  • antipsychiatry
  • psy-critical

etc.

let me know if you have questions or need further clarification –– I am by *no means* any sort of expert on the field, only on my own Mad experiences. but this guide -- as well as reading the #survivingpsych tag on tumblr!!!!!!!!!! -- has helped illuminate a lot of stuff for me. happy reading!

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#mad studies#antipsychiatry#readings#reading list
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Confession time

🌷- you have a super sweet smile

🍄- Let’s hold hands & explore for hours

🌿- you don’t realise how beautiful you are

👋🏻- I wanna be your friend

🎧- you have great taste in music

🍒- you’re such a tease

🌎- why are you so far away?!?!?

🌶- I find you verrrry sexy

🌻- I could talk to you for hours

💐- you’re a total cutie

🍂- I wanna lay in bed and cuddle you

✌🏻- Netflix n chill?

🌸- I think about you a fair bit

🌞- I wanna make out with you

🌚- I’d totally fuck you

💫- I wanna talk to you but i’m too shy

🌈- we have lots in common

☂️-we have nothing in common

💥- you’re really damn annoying

🌧- I find your blog boring

🥀- you’re dead to me

👻- I wish I never met you

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flakyseasalt-deactivated2020102 asked:

Pass the happy! 🌻🌈 When you receive this, list 5 things that make you happy and send this to the last 10 people in the notifications! (also ur new theme is BEAUTIFUL)

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Thank you!!

No particular order:

1. Dozing with Pantalaimon asleep on my chest/in my arms/nuzzled into my neck.

2. Blankets/sheets that are the perfect texture and sensation—soft and smooth and cool. And having picnics outside on them, so i can stretch out on that soft coolness and feel the breeze whispering over my body and i can close my eyes and nap/doze or read a book while listening to birdsong and smelling the fresh air and feeling the sunlight.

3. Having my hair played with and being massaged.

4. The perfect days at VPL i used to have when it would be crisp but sunny and i'd grab starbucks and then head up to My Spot in the library, secluded by the big windows, and stay there until closing and get tons of work done on a paper/assignment. Then walking through downtown at night to get to the skytrain home.

5. Hanging out with a friend on campus, especially in spots that are quieter/deserted or cosy.

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