'Despite battling a fever and being on the brink of death, Plato ... retained enough lucidity to critique the musician for her lack of rhythm, the account suggests.'
theguardian.com/books/2024/apr…

Just a reminder if you struggle with your mental health and have been seeing the discourse today around benefits today, your difficulties are real and they are valid. You aren’t less deserving of help because your problems are more inside your mind than they are in your body.

The Govt has failed to meet its target to reduce the number of autistic people and people with learning disabilities detained in mental health hospitals. There has been a 116% increase in the number of autistic people without a learning disability detained since March 2015. (1/2)

sloth communism Similar colors!

For like as on the poles,
the world is whirled/
So is this Land
the Bedlam of the World
- John Taylor, 1642

update from sloth communism hq (aka my bedroom)

'Chapman pushes back against liberal approaches that tolerate and include economically productive neurodivergent people while further disabling and abandoning others'

Empire of Normality (sloth communism, Pluto Press 2023) reviewed by @geraldroche.bsky.social

redpepper.org.uk/culture-media/…

this is an excellent overview and analysis of discourses about the medical model of mental health - also showing how certain purported alternatives are actually just the medical model rebranded.

People Are Stumbling From One Misguided Narrative About the Medical Model to Another

psychiatrymargins.com/p/people-are-s…

This is what over 1,000 angry Geordies Against Genocide look like marching on Rafael, the Israeli state owned factory on Scotswood Road.

Newcastle stands with Palestine ✊ Shut down Rafael, Free Palestine🇵🇸

My anthology DISABILITY INTIMACY comes out on 4/30!!

Join me that day in conversation with the contributors Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha Nicole Lee Schroeder, PhD & Dr. Ellen Samuels online at Harvard Book Store, 6 pm Eastern

ASL & captioner available

Register: eventbrite.com/e/virtual-even…

oh no, my bed!! i’m having to lie in it

also interesting to consider as part of the long history of trepanning as a sort of ritual used to try to overcome various limitations of the human condition

wrote this four years ago on how recognition of the neurodivergent/madness overlap had both been hindered by, and further cultivated, epistemic injustice. i think this has actually changed a lot since, which i'm glad to see.
criticalneurodiversity.com/2020/03/28/mad…

having a conservative backlash is good publicity as far as I'm concerned. i welcome it.

new article! i've written an in depth piece about how british critical psychiatry (of the bourgeois variant) has been increasingly co-opted by radical conservatives - and how this has enabled the new tory assault on disabled people.
psychiatrymargins.com/p/critical-psy…

when I talk about capital ever expanding it's domain into brain and mind, this the kind of thing i mean (although most other ways it does this are much more subtle)

There are MORE Jews on the march than countering it!

We're the mainstream now 😎