A whiteboard in a Gaza hospital, which usually tracks upcoming surgeries, is wiped clean and instead now displays this message: WHOEVER STAYS UNTIL THE END WILL TELL THE STORY WE DID WHAT WE COULD *REMEMBER US* (Source: Doctors Without Borders)

I often wonder how many of the world’s problems fall into the issue of, “we need to rapidly build emotional intelligence in an enormous, powerful demographic that has never needed it.”

I definitely didn't hit on everything I have to say about this topic. We could (and should) talk about sanist ableism and intellectual ableism and lateral ableism and how ableist language works with all of them. Also keep in mind I mostly know about English and talk from that perspective.

Part of why I don't have no-no lists for ableist language is that you can still express the same ableist values and beliefs with synonyms and long academic essays and all sorts of things. I think of explaining about ableist language as a way to introduce people to recognizing ableism everywhere.

A lot of times talking about ableist language and slurs gets dismissed as memorizing a list of no-no words but honestly that's not why or how I talk about ableist language, because it's not really the point. The point is how language interacts with behaviors and beliefs about Disabled people.

If you're enjoying Bluesky and you don't want it to turn into the cesspool of hate that Twitter did, you best speak up now. Cut that 'I don't know what to say' shit out and amplify Black and queer voices, because the BS team ain't listening to us.

WE WILL RELEASE A NEW TWITTER CLONE EVERY HOUR UNTIL OUR DEMANDS ARE MET

“bluesky won’t have any debate because it’s all left-leaning folks” - person who has never been in a room with two leftists

DMs on Bluesky are called email

Feminism without intersectionality is white supremacy.

Every single space and community has an anti-Blackness problem because that’s how society is built. Until oppression systems are completely ended it will never go away as an important moral priority. There’s no group of people who can responsibly be unconcerned with it.

The setting to require alt text on your images is located directly in Settings under your invite codes. Y'all, please turn this on if you would like to make your images accessible to everyone using Bluesky.

what doesn't kill you makes your amygdala overactive and raises your baseline cortisol levels, often leading to chronic disease

the consequence of reification 😮‍💨

"It is not a matter of prejudice. It is a matter of cowardice. It is easy to blame the N*gg*r or the Arab or the Jew or the dyke or the faggot—anyone that isn't you. You don't want to see that you could be that person; that, in some way, you are that person." — James Baldwin

I fell off the posting wagon when my grandmother passed, but looking to start posting again soon. trying to get to 1,000 subscribers and I have only ~150 to go! if you're into YT, here's my channel 👇🏾

this worked for me! (it also helps that I'm actually hot)

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holy guacamole, you are a wealth of resources! 👑 gut punches from this article affirming my trauma w yt psychs: “stuck in an abusive relationship w therapy” “individualism-focused mental health system is further perpetuating oppression” “intergenerational trauma oozing out from people of color”

Oppression is violent and painful. Many responses to oppression reflect that.

Exactly why I was specific in my thread that its about the mentality and how the words are used not just the words on their own. Because if you just swap a term but keep approaching things the exact same way nothing is achieved.

THIS!!

When yall say, "of course I wasn't talking about a disabled person" or "of course if you're disabled I'm not making fun of you". The problem is most times yall forget we exist or don't take us into consideration. Which ends up being an accessibility issue and harms us. Idk it just feels shitty.

This is also why just changing your vocabulary without examining the underlying sentiment being communicated is….unhelpful. It masks the issue and makes it even harder to navigate relationships.

But to make it our ally we need to know what it is and what it could be. Another world is possible, and psychoanalysis opens up possibilities for personal and political change.” https://fiimg.com/2022/01/17/radical-psychoanalysis-and-anti-capitalist-action/

The alternative comes through political action, through anti-capitalist resistance and many other political struggles, and this is where radical psychoanalysis can be our ally.

“Mainstream ‘mental health’ and ‘well-being’ programmes are too-often focused on making us change our thoughts, urging us to be happy, and fit in. But there is an alternative.

#MentalHealthAwareness 🧵: ‘Understanding psychiatry’s essential bigotry means examining psychiatry’s criteria for “mental illness.” The key question is: What is the actual criteria that psychiatry uses to decide whether we are “mentally ill” or “normal”?

I'm personally working on removing "wild" from my language too as it is anti-Indigenous. It's a word that centers colonialization and colonial perspectives. Most of the non-European world was considered "wild" when in actuality it was simply well-maintained and in balance. Getting specific matters!

Where we at this morning, skyline?

pretty stark reminder today of how allowing individuals to amass extraordinary wealth directly affects everyone else

Also does this app too punish when you skeet ur links? https://youtu.be/VvIeqmUQAz4

it better not more people need to see this

"Every me loves every you" 😭

My name is Jay, I am a Black woman from the UK of Nigerian (Yoruba specifically) +Jamaican parentage 🇳🇬🇯🇲 I make content exploring the present impact of colonialism on our day-to-day lives as Black ppl in the UK, as well as across the 🌍My focus is the British Empire but really any coloniser can get it

We need to go the opposite direction with people who are doing community level work. They need care. They need protection, they need others to help replenish them and take work off their shoulders.

guess where we’re complaining about it now bitch