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[marzipanflows]

My friend Tasneem and her family are still alive, and they're hoping to keep it that way!

This fundraiser is named for Tasneem's youngest daughter Alma, who is recovering from a horrific injury she had last year and needs funds for medical treatment.

So if you'd like to help Tasneem and her family, you can donate to their fundraiser on Chuffed:

Help Alma and her family

Hi,

If you're on IG, you can also follow Tasneem there for direct updates - her previous account was deleted as part of the ongoing purges of Palestinian accounts, and her new one is: tasneem.saif1993

Or, if you're on BlueSky, you can follow the filmmaker Alex Winter, who regularly posts updates from Tasneem: https://bsky.app/profile/alexwinter.com

Thanks for helping out - feel free to share her fundraiser with your friends and anyone you know who might be able to help Tasneem and her family in this time.

[stantler]

[trustno-01]

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

"Clearly I wasn't talking about disabled people-" yeah part of the problem is that the existence of disabled people just isn't considered in your worldview like that's the problem we're criticizing not a get out of jail free card

[la-vie-en-lys]

No, that's not the problem. Not everything is relevant to disabled people, nor does it have to be.

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

Disabled people are the world's biggest minority group and a part of every other marginalized community. Thinking that you can do progressive activism without ever engaging with the subject of disability is in fact a problem

[bob-artist]

Thinking about this one day when I was in Chicago and it was so foggy that the buildings turned 2D

[bebsi-cola]

do people realise that being disabled in a community of other disabled people that you will know someone who was killed or assaulted or abused for being disabled? hell even if you aren't disabled and you just exist in society. my friend's cousin was a little person and got attacked in the street for no fucking reason and died. if you talk to people with disabled family members you'll hear the same sort of stories over and over again. and people are getting way too comfortable these days dismissing ableism as just some sort of rhetoric. like "yeah it's bad optics to say it but-" and go on to say autistic people are really annoying or mobility aids take up too much space or scars really scare them so they should be covered or some other shit like. get a grip. it's not revolutionary or "saying what we're all thinking" by being ableist. that's actually the norm.

[marzipanflows]

[zmpl]

a lot of the DSM’s very clearly prejudiced diagnoses (e.g. hypoactive sexual desire disorder, gender dysphoria, transvestic disorder, etc.) try to skirt around the prejudice by saying “the disorder lies in the patient’s distress over being this way, not the behavior itself :)” like hmmm do you think their distress has anything to do with societal expectations around “normal” sexuality and gender? or is distress just this magic thing that exists in a vacuum with no outside influence

like keep in mind that homosexuality was in the DSM until pressure was put on the APA by gay rights activists, and they “removed” it in 1973 and replaced it with many different diagnostic labels over the years to describe “this person is gay and distressed over it so we’re treating the distress with conversion therapy. blease don’t think we’re homophobic.” it wasn’t until 2013 that distress over one’s own sexual orientation was removed entirely from the DSM. do what you will with this information and begin to wonder what psychiatry’s actual motives are for continuing to pathologize queerness and gender nonconformity.

[ivyroseiris]

Btw the person who wrote the definition of gender dysphoria in the dsm5 has supported conversion therapy

[storybookprincess]

so back when my little brother was in high school, my mom went as a chaperone for their senior year field trip to an amusement park. which, you know, brave move to volunteer to supervise a bunch of high school seniors let loose in a wonderland of rollercoasters and sugar

my brother and his friends in this field trip group were truly great kids. but they were not above run of the mill teenage boy shenanigans. it’s the end of senior year, you and all your buddies are at the amusement park, you’re naturally going to want to act like a complete moron

there was one kid in the group who was especially prone to goofing around. committed to the bit, some may say. my mom knew that if nonsense was going to break out, he’d likely be at the center of it

so she goes up to this kid at the very start of the trip and says “hey, i’m kinda worried about this chaperoning thing. this might be a lot to ask, but can you help me keep an eye on everyone? you wouldn’t have to do anything big, just be an extra set of eyes for me.”

friends, this kid proceeded to run their field trip group like the fucking us marines. everyone is at the meet up spots at the designated time. everyone waits in line for the rides like a bunch of boy scouts. the second the horseplay gets too out of hand, this kid is getting it back under control

it’s incredible how differently people act based on the expectations you set. instead of going to this kid and saying “hey, i know you’re trouble, so i’ve got my eye on you,” my mom went “hey, i know you have influence in your peer group, so i think you can help me.”

treat someone like a problem, they’ll act like a problem. but give people a chance to help, make them feel important, and they usually rise far above the occasion. it was a stroke of genius that i’m honestly still in awe of

[uhhhhmanda]

Just came home from a dinner party with the friendgroup at which several people kept saying "Ask Pedro" or "Pedro will know" and I was terrified that they were referring to an AI like Claude but no, thank fuck, they were referring to a cardboard cutout of Pedro Pascal that someone left upstairs and who has been designated a kind of patron saint status in the household.

[pumkinpaws]

hi. i am humbly asking you to help me afford my gender affirming care, specifically 2 procedures that i have been desperately wanting for years. things that i think about every day. thank you. my goal will increase as i am having a consultation soon and will know how much one of them is. even a dollar is greatly appreciated ❤️

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[jetix]

Bleeding Fairy Helmets on Mount Cordeaux, 2024

[tasneem1993]

We need safety... We are looking for protection and a place to take refuge. Every donation — even the smallest — brings us one step closer to survival and a safe new beginning. 🙏🙏

Please help us for the sake of my children.http://chuffed.org/project/158723-help-alma-and-her-family

[marzipanflows]

Help Alma and her family

Hi,

[junkworldusa]

[autiebiographical]

TW for filicide

When a parent ends their child's life it's a tragedy. Of course, if that child was disabled suddenly their life is framed as the tragedy and their parent is viewed as the victim. There's a reason we have Disability Day of Mourning. This happens too often, and the criminals are so often not brought to justice.

Disability Day of Mourning will be this Sunday, on March 1st. Too many disabled people are taken from us by their parents, relatives or caregivers. If we don't bring attention to this, it'll just keep being ignored.

[emma-o-yt]

Facts about involuntary psychiatric hold:

The United Nations recognises it as a form of torture.

It increases suicide risk by 191 times.

It increases the risk of dying from heart disease and stroke by 3.5 times (no shit on that one, forcing extremely high doses of heavy drugs on someone without even titrating it does that)

45% of patients in psych wards have experienced sexual violence during an admission.

You are a shitty person if you try to get someone involuntarily committed.

[sucrefemme]

Some links to back this stuff up, sorry if u posted ur own links op I’ll reblog those if u did

The UN Humans Rights Council report which includes discussions of how stripping the rights of people to accept or decline care erodes their dignity and personhood. Section V: Recommendations subsection 2 explicitly advocates for an end to involuntary hospitalization. This report also cites lots of other relevant data and is worth reading.

“Danger to Self and Others” a study that showed that in “compliers” (ie: people who are edge cases and are committed by some physicians but would not have been by others) rates of suicide and violent crime within three months of involuntary hospitalization rose significantly.

A comparative study that assesses a lot of other studies’ conclusions about the harm of involuntary holds compared to voluntary holds. This one is dense but worth it to understand that this isn’t an issue of data collection, the harm is visible in the aggregate

2023 study that found 45% of patients report being sexually assaulted in the psych ward. This study also notes that the numbers could be more, due to patient fears of reporting.

Here’s an article I personally find fascinating on the odd legality of psych holds in the US (do the cops have the right to seize your stuff if they think you’re a danger? Why the fuck are cops being allowed to make these assessments? How the fuck is this legal? Should it be legal?)

Having a loved one going through a mental health crisis is a horrible feeling. And it can feel right to try to send them to a “professional” or call in a wellness check when you can’t handle it or can’t get to them physically. But it really can’t be overstated: involuntary psych holds are proven to harm those who are struggling far more than they are proven to help.

If you are being involuntarily committed or fear you might be, you do still have rights and you are not subject to the same restrictions as if you were being arrested. The legal article I linked talks about it a bit for the US, and here’s a document on it for California.

[queeranarchism]

Also a lot of calls to get someone involuntarily committed end with that person being murdered by the cops & not just in the US. In the Netherlands, half of the people murdered by the cops were killed during a mental health crisis. Never ever ever call to have someone involuntarily committed, unless you want their blood on your hands.

[pnwtherian-deactivated20260524]

So many times people will point at mentally ill people or disabled people or literally anyone who isn't typical, and say shit like "not trusting doctors is part of the sickness! This means you need them more even if you say no!"

And.. sometimes I am paranoid and a bit delusional about everyone. But. Guys let's be so for real right now.

I don't trust doctors because they have been dismissive and shitty to me my whole life, because I have been put on dosages meant to kill me, and because I have watched people I love die due to the psyc industry pumping them so full of shit they stop existing and wither. Everyone I know has had similar or worse experiences. You are literally just writing us off and listening to our abusers call us crazy for not wanting to go back and fucking die.

next time you are going to laugh at or write off the "crazy person", or even try to help by getting them involuntarily committed, take a moment and realize the active risk you are putting them in and how this is really just going to make them distrust everything and you even more. Especially if they fall into literally any other minority group, you could be very much signing their death sentence.

[incorrectsmashbrosquotes]

The best piece of writing advice I can give is that you should strive to be sincere rather than original.

You can't force originality. Originality will arise as a natural consequence of sincerity. Make the story completely and apologetically yours, and originality will come by virtue of it being your story.