February 2012
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“There is no official government data on the prevalence of disability hate crimes...”
– Alison Maynard, ‘Criminal Attitude’
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How a bike shop demonstrates the cycle of... →
“Common Wheel is not an ordinary bike shop. It is a charity and cycling project for people with mental health problems in Glasgow. The organisation provides companionship, skills and constructive, meaningful activity for people with mental health problems. It takes donations of old bikes, strips, sorts and sells them.”
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Mencap is calling on the government to make the NHS safe for people with a learning disability, following the publication, this week (Wednesday 15 February), of a new report ‘Death by indifference: 74 deaths and counting’, which finds continued institutional discrimination in the NHS.
The new report looks at what progress has been made since the publication of Mencap’s original ‘Death by...
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nerdviolence:
I have also bought a copy of Mind Over Matter ‘zine and it’s safe to say it was £2 very well spent. Read a lot of it on the bus back home and it’s extremely informative and interesting. If you have a vague interest in mental health issues, want to know more or are just curious to hear some personal experiences of people battling with different mental health issues, pick up a...
“It bothers me that no one has the patience to deal with someone who is just sad.”
– Emily Haines
lovewallace:
Patients Who Use Anti-Depressants Can Be More Likely to Suffer Relapse
you can’t relapse if you don’t start getting better in the first place so fuck y’all
A really interesting issue is the distinction between relapse and new, distinct symptoms. This is something that is being discussed a lot lately in research concerning antipsychotics. For example, researchers...
“Though I clearly prefer shows of tolerance to shows of intolerance, I...”
– Jacques Derrida
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Patients Who Use Anti-Depressants Can Be More... →
“… anti-depressants interfere with the brain’s natural self-regulation of serotonin and other neurotransmitters, and the brain can overcorrect once medication is suspended, triggering new depression.”
Well, that’s a thought that’s going to fester.
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Uh so… I work as a conference producer for the public sector, and I just spent my lunch break catching up on zine orders (stapling them together, writing address labels, packaging stuff up etc etc). One of my senior colleagues / kind of bosses came into the office and asked to read one. He was really impressed with it and said I should ask if I can put them in the delegate packages at a big...
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January 2012
22 posts
eller-hur:
It’s interesting that when I’m unwell, like I am now - and I mean, physically, with some sort of bug or cold or virus or whatever this is (I’ve had a rough couple of days) - I don’t feel guilty about staying in bed or not getting stuff done. It’s like, it’s ok because it’s ‘real’, and people can see it. I have a real excuse. If it carries on too long then nobody would think I was...
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[Trigger Warning: Discussion of sexual assault,... →
abstractosdreams:
Those stories in the news that I read every week remind me that outward expressions of mental illness can endanger me, and that having large numbers of people aware that I am mentally ill could also be dangerous to me.
Being mentally ill means that I am more likely to be shot by police. I am more likely to be raped or assaulted, and ignored when I file a report. I am more...
Page on strike to protest SOPA and PIPA. Everything will be back up tomorrow, folks.
To sign the petition and put your page on stike too, go to http://sopastrike.com/
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(now rewritten!) on privilege denial within...
youarenotyou:
I’ve noticed a lot of people denying their capability to be ableist because they themselves fall somewhere on the disability spectrum. This, to me, really highlights the problems with using the typical privilege/oppression model to explain ableism. This model positions an individual as either having privilege, or being oppressed—one or the other. The problem is that it’s often more...
Keith Buckley on social media →
cherrybelly:
This is pretty long, but worth a read. What he says about people putting on fronts on their various blogs/accounts sums up how I feel about so many people I know IRL and follow online. And in turn it made me look at how I use social media. The quote below is particularly representative of how on the money he is. He talks about his period of withdrawal and how Twitter has affected...
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Anonymous asked: Have you seen midwest-monster's latest post about how people with EDs are a danger to children? I'd be interested to hear your thoughts. I personally think her ideas on the topic are foul.
francileo asked: I just ordered your zine. :) I'm from spain, so I'm just curious as to how long it'll take for me to get it? Thanks!
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mythologisingme asked: Hello! I'm really sorry I asked yesterday about the zine and it arrived today. It's lovely. I definitely think you could charge more in future x
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[Trigger Warning: Agoraphobia] Woman Manages... →
ArLynn Presser is a 51 year-old romance writer and mother of two who has suffered from debilitating agoraphobia for nearly three decades. On December 31, 2010, ArLynn resolved to begin proactively managing her disorder by hitting the road to meet all of her 325 Facebook friends for the very first time. One year later and she has met 292 of them.
Click through for video.
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rosalarian:
I can’t seem to write anything even tangentially related to social justice anymore without panicking and deleting it because of the backlash, not from the right wing, but the left. I feel incredibly silenced by the social justice movement, despite believing in most of its causes. I have distanced myself from most of it.
Maybe could we all be a bit nicer to each other, and use honey...
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something of a reference post
youarenotyou:
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missvoltairine:
Because this bothers me, obviously, and I want to write a bunch of posts addressing different points on it individually, although obviously the whole thing is old news and a lot of people have done that already. But there’s two points on there that keep coming back to annoy me, specifically, because I keep seeing them uncritically repeated in...
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[Trigger Warning: Discussion of abuse] →
rebelrebelbatcat:
Been thinking a lot lately about the perpetuation of abusive behavior in so-called progressive communities. Have a lot of unfinished thoughts on this that it’s hard for me to get words around, but I maintain that abuse hinges on power and it bothers me a lot when anger at oppression gets lumped in with/conflated with real instances of abuse, verbal or otherwise. A look at the...
poptartslutzz:
i have valid and real emotions even with a mental illness
i deserve to be heard regardless of my depression
i don’t need to apologize for feeling what i feel
feeling is okay
feeling is okay
Anonymous asked: Hi, this may seem a foolish question to those in the know but why do you give a description of each photo on your blog?
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“One of the basic tenants of being a decent fucking person is being conscious...”
– newwavefeminism
December 2011
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skyfullofholes asked: I GOT THE ZINE TODAY. You have no idea how happy i am right now :D :D Thank you so much!!!
Resources for Male Survivors
tommyxvx:
letstalkaboutrape:
I posted last week asking people if they knew of some good resources for male victims of sexual assault. Here is the list people came up with:
www.malesurvivor.org
www.violenceunsilenced.com
www.rainn.org
www.pandys.org
www.1in6.org
www.soulspeakout.org
http://finallyfeminism101.wordpress.com/
Thanks everyone!
Thanks to the people that sent me this link, I...
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sexinthecinema asked: thank you so much for the delivery of the zine it's fantastic! :) well done xx
“A paradox of depression is that sufferers yearn for connection, seem bereft...”
– Speaking Of Sadness, David A. Karp
“i’m really tired of people calling identities ‘labels’ and acting like its so...”
– youarenotyou
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meloukhia:
Disability Does Not An Unfit Parent Make
This is not an attitude of the past. This is not an attitude that reigned in the early 20th century and was beaten back by campaigners arguing for full social inclusion. It’s something that continues to be an issue, and enough of one that some disabled people have very legitimate reason to fear that their children may be taken away from them...
skepticamongthefaithful asked: Hey there! I was wondering how I might be able to get a copy of your zine? I'm sorry if you mentioned it earlier, but my dash has been clogged as of late and I get easily distracted by pictures of kittens. =[
[TW: ableist slur] How to apologise
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lavender-labia:
The more time I spend on Tumblr, the more I realise that some people just don’t know how to apologise properly. These seems to cause a lot of unnecessary drama and hurt. With that in mind, here is my handy-guide to apologising.
How to apologise:
Say sorry and mean it.
Acknowledge what you did that was wrong. a) If you don’t know what you did, avoid further...
[Trigger Warning: Eating disorders]
youarenotyou:
i love how i can’t talk about how our culture glamorizes skinniness and encourages eating disordered behavior without getting flooded with messages about how horrible i am for shaming people with mental illness
I’ve been watching this unfold on my dash and I don’t think what you said was out of line. Indeed, many folks are prevented from getting help sooner with...
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Hello chaps, the lovely folks at @notaloneatxmas are encouraging the tag #notaloneatxmas on twitter for those out there who are spending this festive season without company, perhaps not by choice, and who are feeling a little lonely. Reach out to someone who may need it irl if you can and, if you’re on twitter, perhaps join in and have a chat with someone there who may need to hear some...