Notices by Anti. 🐘 (antiaall3s@chaos.social), page 10

"When people die by suicide while waiting for benefits or for trans healthcare, suicide may be read as a result of illness that originated from inside the person’s mind. The state’s responsibility for social murder is therefore diminished. This process of medicalisation also leads the living towards overwhelmingly medical ‘solutions’ for distress; we are prescribed drugs or cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) instead of revolution."

"Doctors do not have a monopoly on the process of diagnosis – or, rather, of identification. They may hoard training, technologies, literature and other resources within the institution, and give the final rubber stamp for the purposes of the state. But positive identification processes are often actually collectively made in the community."

“Communities that practise self-diagnosis also often actively reject biomedical approaches. Autistic communities have asserted that ‘autism’ describes a broad cluster of very real experiences of the world, not a discrete or objective biological disorder. When people are denied diagnosis or healthcare, community spaces that value self-diagnosis may offer a place to share tips, to better understand our shared oppression, and to organise against it. >

They turn diagnosis into a tool for solidarity rather than individualism.”

"Diagnosis is a tool. Its utility and its violence can’t be viewed in a vacuum – they speak to the power dynamics entrenched in psychiatry, and the broader failures of biomedical frameworks to genuinely respond to human suffering and difference."

"All disability, illness and suffering is deeply political, and each of these groups deserve liberation. Disabled movements have also at times been guilty of the same kind of disavowal – distancing themselves from the unpalatability of Madness/Mental Illness in an effort to gain respectability and rights. This mutual disavowal helps no one."

“In political movements, ‘prefiguration’ describes the idea that we should infuse our present actions with the values that we would like to see in future utopias. The disability activist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha describes prefiguration as: ‘waking up and acting as if the revolution has happened.’8 These actions might be big or small, experimental or methodical. Either way, they are about bringing the futures that only exist in our most distant imaginations into the present”

“the fear of punishment, including material consequences like having children taken away, prevents us from being honest, getting support, or even just being ourselves in daily life. It transforms mental ‘health’ into something we have no choice but to practise and perform – a logic that spills out further into neoliberal messaging that we all must look after ourselves and maintain our bodyminds in line with the demands of the state.”

"While many of us argue for more funding and expansion in a struggle to access resources, this is an apt moment to interrogate what kinds of mental healthcare we want. Do we want a system that shuts people in and shuts people out? A system whose structures are focused on managing us in line with economic demands, rather than honouring our individuality and helping us heal? Are capitalist neoliberal ‘services’ the best we can dream of?"

I somehow messed up the thread, but here are some more quotes from the excellent book Mad World by Micha Frazer-Carroll, that i posted. Sorry for the mess.

https://chaos.social/@antiaall3s/111294421887954633

"The diverse range of experiences that we call ‘mental health crises’ rarely spring up from nowhere.
[...] If we really want them to be well, why don’t we go deeper than the ‘symptoms’ and address the economic and relational circumstances that lead to the suffering of so many? If we turn back the clock from the moment of crisis, we can almost always find numerous moments at which a person should have received care or attention, but didn’t have access to it."

"Ruth Wilson Gilmore says: ‘abolition is about presence, not absence. It’s about building life-affirming institutions.’ If we want to end incarceration in all its forms, we need to build a world where we do not reactively force people to live, but one that is survivable."

"Mental health responses must be community and patient-run, well-funded, free from entrenched power dynamics, and should centre care rather than force."

"We are often led to believe that our societal approach to mental health, driven by capitalist qualities of impatience and rigidity, is the only way. However, when we expand our imaginations and open up space for ambiguity, collaboration, creativity, plurality and strangeness, new and surprising possibilities emerge."

A liberated future, for mental health, will always be nuanced, contradictory, plural and relentlessly tailored to each and every individual."

"We must champion alternative approaches that provide free, non-hierarchical, accessible, wide-ranging and community-controlled mental health support, to resist a right-wing neoliberal project of social murder through a combination of abandonment and control.3 If we believe that communities should have control over production, then it follows that we should have control over our healthcare and healing too."

Micha Frazer-Carroll - Mad World

Done ;) Great book. 9/10.

"Together, we should fight the forces that want some of us dead, and the rest of us meekly agreeing to their tyranny. The disabled or the chronically ill are considered as surplus under the neoliberal capitalist system – we are no longer of economic value, and thus worthless. Refusing to fight this notion means being subservient & compliant to the interests and wishes of the rich and powerful"

https://rant.li/atlettertoourcomradesatrant-li/an-open-letter-to-our-anarchist-socialist-and-radical-leftist-comrades

#OpenLetter #Anarchy #AntiAbleism

Boosts appreciated :anarchistflagblack:

@MediaActivist It is often said that the left is never going anywhere, because they are always bickering. I am convinced this is the key debate that we need to hold, authoritarian versus anti-authoritarian or egalitarian. It's simply not compatible. One side is fighting for another top down structure, just with "better" people on top, a committee or a vanguard, to eventually arrive at communism. The other side is fighting for a structure that will prefigure communism in the here and now.

In the latest episode (patron only) of the #DeathPanel podcast, Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Abby Cartus speak with Ellie Murray about 'The Sociology of Mask Mandates'. Their conclusion, mask mandates do work.

And as an anarchist this pisses me off so much. It has to be seen as a clear victory for the authoritarian left. As anti-authoritarians we had a chance to convince people to mask voluntarily as an act of solidarity and a stance against ableism. And we have failed.

https://soundcloud.com/deathpanel/teaser-the-sociology-of-mask-mandates-w-ellie-murray-103023

Oldie but goodie, and in some ways very relevant in the current moment.

https://piped.video/watch?v=H6oOj7BzciA
original:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6oOj7BzciA

“Disability is not a closing down of possibilities – on the contrary, it is a portal – an opening up of so many different ways of being, understanding and relating to the world around us. Far from being synonymous with ‘broken’ or ‘lacking’: disability is possibility.”

@MediaActivist I would love to find such a site vas well, preferably even offering a view through a radical lens. For my interest in art i am quite happy with hyperallergic (even though i don't understand why my browser opens it in a meta container, afaik it's not part of meta). But for pop culture and for music i have not found a comparable site yet, maybe the quietus does a bit of that for music.

"Mastodon is interoperable, decentralized, operated by a nonprofit, lively, and, ACTUALLY, isn't hard to use. So why is everyone championing Threads as the main Twitter alternative?"

Exactly my question, but replace Threads with Bluesky.

https://www.404media.co/mastodon-is-the-good-one/