Hello friends and allies @asylummagazine.bsky.social @nsunnews.bsky.social @voxscotland.bsky.social We'd be very grateful for a repost about the Centre for Mad Culture UK survey, open for responses until 23 Feb. 🙏 Julia

www.nsun.org.uk/my-admission... A really poignant piece about how the physical health needs of people are neglected when people enter the mental health system

open.spotify.com/episode/3bGt... A podcast with Sohail Jannesari, migration researcher and activist

youtu.be/M80IxYp7fUM?... A podcast looking at Autism, Addiction and safety in care

I am consistently feeling that the middle 2020s will be known in future as the 'get back in the closet' years. Because that's what backlash feels like. Mental ill-health? Back in the cupboard. Trans? Back in the cupboard. Not white? Back in the cupboard. The wrong kind of gay? Back in the cupboard.

novaramedia.com/2025/12/10/w... "Streeting's review and the discourse used to justify it carries echoes of Thatcher - leveraging "antipsychiatry" arguments as an excuse for abandoning people in distress"

neurodiversityandcapitalism.substack.com/p/the-fascis... "Overdiagnosis" discourse with a particular focus on autism, ADHD, anxiety and depression, is the new culture war- the main function of which so far, as the UK has seen recently, is to justify cruel cuts to welfare"

www.eventbrite.com/e/madness-my... "Maybe madness is more like wilderness, with a mix of dangers and possibilities" (Ron Unger)

Sexual violence in older adults is under-researched, yet approximately 30-35% of women and 10-27% of men experience it in their lifetime 😔 #MentalHealth #SexualViolence #OlderAdults #Trauma 🧵 THREAD

www.bigissue.com/opinion/disa... Disabled people faced a politically tumultuous 2025. What does next year have in store?

An important Xmas message ❤️💥

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Happy Xmas from the @asylummagazine.bsky.social editorial group❤️ Thank you for supporting @asylummagazine.bsky.social ❤️

asylummagazine.org/2025/12/asyl... Read here the 3 free sample articles of the Winter 2025 @asylummagazine.bsky.social Issue

www.disabilitynewsservice.com/labour-accus... "Labour wants to cut the percentage of new homes that should be built to [a strict standard of accessibility] from 100 per cent (under Tory plans) to just 40 per cent"

www.nsun.org.uk/you-cannot-c... "The goal should not be to make autistic people more resilient to injustice; it should be to make injustice unacceptable in our society"

A reminder about the online launch of the Winter 2025 @asylummagazine.bsky.social Issue Join us for the online launch on Friday, 19 December at 6pm UK time You can register here: bit.ly/Asylumlaunch... All welcome ❤️

The work&pensions secretary has bragged about cutting disabled people’s support,3 days after launching a child povertystrategy which warned that more than a million children in families where someone was disabled were living in “deep material poverty”.” www.disabilitynewsservice.com/mcfadden-bra...

bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/ambivalent-a... @hspandler.bsky.social, @kpoursanidou.bsky.social & Sonia Soans are discussing @asylummagazine.bsky.social as a mental health activism space where contradictions can co-exist in our chapter included in the "Ambivalent Activism" edited book

www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec... "Prohibition of torture and inhuman and degrading treatment is an absolute [human] right"

www.theguardian.com/society/2025... "Living in fear of abuse,discrimination & humiliation is a major risk factor for poor mental health...trans & non binary people already experience some of the highest rates of mental ill health in the UK, driven by exclusion & barriers to gender affirming care"

This is a genuinely welcome policy that could enormously improve people’s lives: families will be offered help to leave temporary accommodation, one of the worst conditions imposed on children by years of Tory housing and benefits policies. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...