Fighting for disability rights has to include fighting for people whose symptoms of their disability that may make you uncomfortable (i.e. people with schizophrenia).

Imagine how much we could do with our lives if we weren't constantly worried about being able to afford to live.

The Sudan Solidarity Collective supports organizations led by Sudanese civilians: including emergency response rooms, mutual aid, labor and farmers’ unions. Please give what you can and/or share.

Chikungunya is very common in Trinidad and I never even knew there was a vaccine for it! Global vaccine apartheids are such violence. Please support this important request to help increase global access to this vaccine, especially if you are someone in the Global North.

Depathologising my madness and learning to accept it as a part of me has made my life so much more full and whole and rich ever since. I still have to find ways to adjust so that I can adapt to life under capitalism, but that doesn't make my madness inherently wrong.

I'm so tired of living under white supremacy. It's so damaging to your spirit.

Take me to your leader.

CW abuse.

There's no way that you can claim to care about survivors and not take COVID seriously. Just none at all. COVID is one of the biggest threats to survivors now, its effects more rapid than the climate crisis and almost any other mass disabling and destabilising event that we're facing now.

CW suicide. This suicide prevention month, I feel so much grief for everyone who is being forced into suicide because they're being denied access to the resources they need to survive.

CW abuse. So much of why we don't believe survivors and why we support their abusers instead is because of psychiatry. Psychiatry encourages us to vilify, victim-blame and abandon survivors and sympathise with their abusers. I believe in psych abolition in no small part because of survivors.

CW abuse. Therapy isn't the solution for abuse. Therapy doesn't make people non-abusive. Many times, abusers go to therapy and just gain the tools manipulate and control their victims better.

CW abuse. Abuse literacy literally saved my life. It helped me stop believing my abusers' promises that they'd changed + to recognise how I'd been viewing harassment as flattering because I thought it meant they missed me. Abusers really rely on our being uneducated about the dynamics of abuse

CW rape. This. It's the same ideology underscoring his actions in both cases. It's rape culture manifesting at a larger scale. We need to stop platforming rapists and allowing them access to power.

Children are not property. Parents do not get to do whatever they want to them and claim it's fine because it's their child and that no one has any right to butt into their private family affairs when what they are doing places their child in danger. Children deserve better.

Fuck Taylor Swift. Fuck all billionaires. Fuck everyone who defends them in any way.

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Interested in the changing political valence of "trauma" which in the Me Too era was used as a means of (perhaps remedially) trying to create empathy for the suffering of rape victims. Now, I see it used much more often as an attack on epistemic authority.

"Trauma" in short, is starting to function a lot like a new "hysteria."

I really wish these KN-95s fit me, because I love how they look.

[worst possible stuff happening everywhere] man why do I feel bad

There should be a workshop on how to get revenge on your abuser

CW abuse. Many people do, in fact, believe survivors. They just don't care. It's a traumatic reality that many survivors confront when coming forward to share their stories.

I love that the only time the US supports feminism and think women should be treated as people is when they want to bomb a country.

When I see white people in the Global North wanting to give up lately and talking about how hopeless everything feels, I don't know how I'm supposed to feel about that. Do you understand that many of us have been experiencing the world like this for ages?

CW sexual violence, suicide.

Greta Thunberg, arriving back in Europe after her abduction by Israel in international waters, explains in 40 seconds why western governments are colluding in genocide:

I really need to get up to get dinner right now but my cat is sleeping on me. How am I supposed to move him, look at him????

this suffering is all manmade by Israel and everyone who supports Israel

CW abuse. Therapy isn't the solution for abuse. Therapy doesn't make people non-abusive. Many times, abusers go to therapy and just gain the tools manipulate and control their victims better.

Yall border really heavily on ableism in the ways that you talk about COVID and people affected by COVID.

CW sexual violence.

CW rape, abuse, abuse apologism.

CW sexual violence. Literally.

How many of us have ended up being psychopathologised by doctors because our health concerns aren't taken seriously or aren't easily diagnosable? www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...

That is our humanity recognizing the suffering of fellow human beings, registering the incomprehensible cruelty of fellow human beings. The scale of these horrors is human; the end of these horrors will come at the hands of humans: us.

Yeah and it’s still happening…

‘Johnny Depp is proof cancel culture doesn’t exist’ The beleaguered actor will star in a new action film, Day Drinker. A decade into the culture wars, his case proves what should have been clear all along 🖋️ Emily Bootle inews.co.uk/culture/film...

RFK Jr.'s statement that autistic kids "will never pay taxes" makes a lot more sense when you realize the only autistic person he knows is Elon Musk.

Living under capitalism will really have you believing that it's normal to just feel bad all the time.

Our new zine on Horror Movies and Disability is almost ready, have space for about 7 more submissions at a push.

Tired of having to be strong and resilient.

Therapists also don't deserve praise for reducing harm in their work, like not calling the police on their clients. This is the bare minimum of what it means to be a decent human being. Reducing harm while participating in and profiting from a fundamentally violent field doesn't deserve praise.

Mental health workers don't deserve to be praised for pointing out the fact that the field that they *work in* is harmful, carceral, ableist and colonial. Mad people do this all the time.

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