let this darkness be a bell tower

This is my blog about madness, liberation, anti psychiatry, and recovery(?). Some original posts but mostly I reblog really writings and art works that's at all relevant to those topics.

[projectiondepartment]

new poem by me just dropped in amok issue 1 which i don't think will be sold internationally so i have decided to post it here in full. yay!

[molags-balls]

[beemovieerotica]

dear people with OCD: the next time you have spiraling & intrusive thoughts, what-ifs, or catastrophizing scenarios, I am sending a cardigan-wearing 46-year old NYU professor directly into your brain and he says "Aaaaand scene!!!" and he claps his hands slowly. and he says "Wow. Wow. Powerful stuff. Evocative imagery. A little bit post-modern, a little bit hysterical realism in the vein of Don Delilo but let's pause right here." and you will recognize your thoughts as a perplexing avant-garde film shown to an audience of 15 liberal arts students who are now trying to get a good grade and sleep with their professor.

[perriaeyjeve]

[pnglove]

© kitagar

[ahotknife]

[aidashakur]

Feels like I’ve lived so many lives & im still in my 20s.

[anxietyproblem]

[imogenstvincent]

Ngl guuys I wanna kms so bad

[pbeeanjay]

fish out of water

[terefah]

yes i believe god sends me messages personally but i’m jewish so i don’t need to act on them

[terefah]

etc

[maxxie-or-smth]

maybe it's time to try religious psychosis

[funeral]

Rosario Castellanos, "Entrevista de prensa"

[iphigeniacomplex]

[Transcript:

I write because one day (I was an adolescent) I looked in the mirror and no one was there. Can you imagine? A void. And those around me gushed importance.

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[terefah]

Hiiii, didn't you just post a website with recources on trauma and related things? I thought you did and wanted to have a look at it, but can't find it anymore...

the integral guide! 🩷

[ceresbaby]

“Love Song” by Henry Dumas

[vampiresister]

On the other hand, the family is where most of the rape happens on this earth, and most of the murder. No one is likelier to rob, bully, blackmail, manipulate, or hit you, or inflict unwanted touch, than family. Logically, announcing an intention to “treat you like family” (as so many airlines, restaurants, banks, retailers, and workplaces do) ought to register as a horrible threat. Instead, to be metaphorically “family” in someone’s eyes makes-believe that one has something quite … unfamilial. Namely: acceptance, solidarity, an open promise of help, welcome, and care.

— Sophie Lewis, Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation

[night-the-starfish]

Fish out of water, gouache and markers on paper.