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last summer, i accidentally stayed at hotel that was a converted mental asylum.

it was a place they sterilized queer and trans people. where men could "drop off" their wives, to be held indefinitely & subject to treatment that amounted to torture.

after it closer, it became a prison. then, a spa & hotel 🤮

the history of therapy is parallel to the history of incarceration. it has historically been about managing "the undesirables."

if we just throw abusers into the pile of ~undesirables~, without meaningfully interrogating the history & historic function of ... therapy, psychology & psychiatry...
we are absolutely repeating the mistakes of the past.