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it is not lost on me that every single time I bring up this phenomenon (overprescription of antipsychotic medication to young children who have "inconvenient" psych disorders or "behavior issues" or who have been identified as "problems"; also to vulnerable patients in institutions and group home settings) I hear from at least one and sometimes dozens of people saying "whoa, that happened to me I didn't know it was part of a Thing they do on purpose, I thought that it was just sort of a random result of doctors randomly being sort of bad at their job in my particular case" so many of us are or were eligible to be a part of class action lawsuits we did not even know existed until after they were settled (mmmeeeeee! i absolutely could have sued psych professionals involved in my "care" so many times over by now lol) (just knowing that something that was done to you is an offense worthy of litigation is such an important thing to be aware of in terms of Understanding What Happened To You)

this is why it's so important for psychiatric survivors to talk to each other and to talk about our experiences. they don't want us to talk to each other they don't want us to see the patterns they don't want us to understand how the system works. like. this is why I talk about this stuff. people don't know they don't know things about the things that happened to them!!!!!! its OLD MAN EPISTEMIC INJUSTICE YET AGAIN

#anti psych

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LET ME PUT Y’ALL ONTO THIS BOOK

So the book is Reflections From a Flaxen Past by Kati Reeder Meek. It’s specifically an exploration of Lithuanian fiber art from the perspective of an outsider, she’s super clear about not being Lithuanian herself so the vast majority of the book just features other Lithuanian artists.

Very cool to see the many, many pictures of women weaving and spinning. Also a great inspiration book because again, there’s just SO MANY pictures of weavings.

I’ve seen a couple posts about weaving songs AND THIS BOOK HAS SOME both in the original Lithuanian and an English translation.

But my FAVORITE part of the book is ALL THE PATTERN DRAFTS. They’re all very pretty and there’s quite a few I haven’t seen before.

There’s a section towards the end that has a really extensive list of museums and other resources which is a little outdated since the book was published in 2000 but still mostly relevant. I have no idea how my grandmother found this book for me but I’m very excited to give it a full read.

#fiber art #weaving #resources #art history