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

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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"

Edwige died at a St Andrews hospital, she fell unconscious and the nurses chose not to resuscitate her. They thought she was 'faking it' in order to attack them, she'd never done that before. Edwige's family had to turn off her life support days later. 84% of St Andrews income is NHS money.

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 ❤️

NOT A MOMENT TOO SOON. Tees, Esk and Wear Valley mh trust have perpetrated some of the most abhorrent medical abuse and istr8genuc harm of my peers that I've encountered. They are notoriously negligent.

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...

April Ashley describes receiving this barbaric treatment in her biography.

Would you like to get in touch? We're interested in hearing from more survivors. Solidarity

Agreed. There's nothing more odd to me than a queer throwing other LGBTQ people under the bus. Any idiot can spot that we're next. Collaboration doesn't buy you anything except a later ticket on the train.

“Many of those treated were referred to hospital by their teachers, priests or GP. Some say they did not give informed consent, and say they were explicitly told not to tell their parents.” Reminder that they wanted to bring back teachers snitching in trans children

I do worry how many would support a return to it for trans people though, in 2025. The LGB people joining the abuse of T people, using the same lies, methods, and arguments as were used against us for decades is just disgusting.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... Aversion therapy through electroshock effected trans people as well as lesbians & gay men. Survivors are demanding apologies & an end to all conversion therapies.

news.sky.com/story/i-was-... The complex relationship between mental (ill) health, spirituality and violence

I remember reading that "aversion therapy" was available in the 80s. Ignorance reigned.

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And if they brought it back tomorrow for trans people, the newspaper commentariat would line up to press the button.

www.bbc.com/news/article... Recent research by @hspandler.bsky.social (Professor of Mental Health), a leading historian of Psychiatry and LGBT+ health, suggests that [aversion therapy through electroshock] was far more widespread than previously documented

mydaftlife.com/2025/11/11/c... 3 December World Day for People with Disabilities The blog concerns the inquest of Daniel, a 41 year old disabled man in residential care, who died of choking (an avoidable death) The blog exposes "the shite that passes for care [in the UK] at such a human cost"

Even people who have concerns about sport or refuge spaces would do well to justify why trans women should be excluded from the Women’s Institute or Guides. Just cruelty and spite. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Join us for the online launch of the Winter 2025 Issue of @asylummagazine.bsky.social Friday 19th December, 6pm GMT Register here to attend: bit.ly/Asylumlaunch... All welcome ❤️

Artwork from the website of Mad in Greece madingreece.org/category/%CF...

www.theguardian.com/society/2021... A story about how an autoimmune condition (autoimmune encephalitis) was misdiagnosed as a psychiatric crisis- with devastating effects for the person involved

For the last 3 years, deaths of victims of domestic abuse by suicide have outpaced homicide deaths. 170 mothers across the UK have been killed by their sons in the past 15 years – nearly one in 10 of all women who died at the hands of men.

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Kylie Cheung at Abortion, Every Day writes about the future anti-abortion extremists want: "One in which we’re not just stripped of our most basic rights, but also deemed crazy for fighting back—even just for pointing out what’s being done to us."

Today is World AIDS Day, remembering all those we have lost, thinking of all those living with HIV.

MIA is excited to announce Mad in Deutschland has joined the Mad in the World! Their website has just launched at madindeutschland.org. Check out all the Mad in the World affiliates on madinamerica.com, with top journalism serving as a catalyst for rethinking psychiatric care around the world!

I was diagnosed with #HIV in 1998, when I was 30. Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50. I’m 58 now. HIV treatment works. Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex. Ensure HIV treatment for all. End HIV stigma. #WorldAIDSDay

@asylummagazine.bsky.social is at Sheffield Transformed Festival today, Sunday 30th November If you are around, come to say hello 💜❤️

www.sheffieldtransformed.org/events/sheff... Asylum magazine is doing a stall at the Sheffield Transformed Festival this Sunday 30th November If you are going, come and say hello 👋

asylummagazine.org/2024/01/asyl... 29th November- International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People We remember the struggles of the Palestinian People for Freedom We remember the Genocide in Gaza 💔❤️‍🩹